Merge 5.9-rc5 into char-misc-next

We want the char/misc fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 3afb939f2a1cc..ea53b30cf4837 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -604,9 +604,6 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
 	struct kernfs_node *sd;
 	const struct kobj_type *ktype;
 
-	if (!kobj)
-		return;
-
 	sd = kobj->sd;
 	ktype = get_ktype(kobj);
 
@@ -637,8 +634,12 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
  */
 void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
-	struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent;
+	struct kobject *parent;
+
+	if (!kobj)
+		return;
 
+	parent = kobj->parent;
 	__kobject_del(kobj);
 	kobject_put(parent);
 }