From: Adrian Bunk Fix a check-after-use spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Cc: Karsten Keil Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c~i4l-isdn_ttyc-fix-a-check-after-use drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c --- 25/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c~i4l-isdn_ttyc-fix-a-check-after-use Fri Mar 17 16:34:04 2006 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c Fri Mar 17 16:34:04 2006 @@ -2345,12 +2345,15 @@ isdn_tty_at_cout(char *msg, modem_info * u_long flags; struct sk_buff *skb = NULL; char *sp = NULL; - int l = strlen(msg); + int l; if (!msg) { printk(KERN_WARNING "isdn_tty: Null-Message in isdn_tty_at_cout\n"); return; } + + l = strlen(msg); + spin_lock_irqsave(&info->readlock, flags); tty = info->tty; if ((info->flags & ISDN_ASYNC_CLOSING) || (!tty)) { _