diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 3e89fbbd160f..a5941872d3f7 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -3061,7 +3061,8 @@ findFirstRetry:
 	pSMB->TotalParameterCount = cpu_to_le16(params);
 	pSMB->ParameterCount = pSMB->TotalParameterCount;
 	pSMB->ParameterOffset = cpu_to_le16(
-	  offsetof(struct smb_com_transaction2_ffirst_req, SearchAttributes) - 4);
+	      offsetof(struct smb_com_transaction2_ffirst_req, SearchAttributes)
+		- 4);
 	pSMB->DataCount = 0;
 	pSMB->DataOffset = 0;
 	pSMB->SetupCount = 1;	/* one byte, no need to make endian neutral */
@@ -3084,12 +3085,12 @@ findFirstRetry:
 			 (struct smb_hdr *) pSMBr, &bytes_returned, 0);
 	cifs_stats_inc(&tcon->num_ffirst);
 
-	if (rc) {/* BB add logic to retry regular search if Unix search rejected unexpectedly by server */
+	if (rc) {/* BB add logic to retry regular search if Unix search
+			rejected unexpectedly by server */
 		/* BB Add code to handle unsupported level rc */
 		cFYI(1, ("Error in FindFirst = %d", rc));
 
-		if (pSMB)
-			cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
+		cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
 
 		/* BB eventually could optimize out free and realloc of buf */
 		/*    for this case */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index 77e1fc01d747..ddd11fa15528 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ build_path_from_dentry(struct dentry *direntry)
 	struct dentry *temp;
 	int namelen = 0;
 	char *full_path;
-	char dirsep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(CIFS_SB(direntry->d_sb));
+	char dirsep;
 
 	if(direntry == NULL)
 		return NULL;  /* not much we can do if dentry is freed and
 		we need to reopen the file after it was closed implicitly
 		when the server crashed */
 
+	dirsep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(CIFS_SB(direntry->d_sb));
 cifs_bp_rename_retry:
 	for (temp = direntry; !IS_ROOT(temp);) {
 		namelen += (1 + temp->d_name.len);