[ Upstream commit 79597c8bf64ca99eab385115743131d260339da5 ] smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error: we previously assumed 'rac97' could be null (see line 2072) remove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL. Fixes: da3cec35dd3c ("ALSA: Kill snd_assert() in sound/pci/*") Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615021732.1972194-1-suhui@nfschina.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>