Smatch complains that the call to snd_soc_component_get_drvdata(component) will dereference "component" so this NULL check is too late. The probe() function will never be called with a NULL component pointer so just delete the check. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aScUKqCEhSIZoOmg@stanley.mountain Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>