From 82b508b9171c945ba881101e2e31912e53189a35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Pouzzner <douzzer@wolfssl.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 00:32:26 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] wolfcrypt/src/sha512.c: fixes for cppcheck complaints:
 nullPointerRedundantCheck

---
 wolfcrypt/src/sha512.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wolfcrypt/src/sha512.c b/wolfcrypt/src/sha512.c
index a84c3943a..a0a0b3b4a 100644
--- a/wolfcrypt/src/sha512.c
+++ b/wolfcrypt/src/sha512.c
@@ -956,13 +956,15 @@ int wc_Sha512Update(wc_Sha512* sha512, const byte* data, word32 len)
 
 static WC_INLINE int Sha512Final(wc_Sha512* sha512)
 {
-    byte* local = (byte*)sha512->buffer;
+    byte* local;
     int ret;
 
     if (sha512 == NULL) {
         return BAD_FUNC_ARG;
     }
 
+    local = (byte*)sha512->buffer;
+
     local[sha512->buffLen++] = 0x80;  /* add 1 */
 
     /* pad with zeros */