Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove meaningless pstat->passoc_req check in OnAssocReq()

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 9/27/21 5:30 AM, Longji Guo wrote:
> kfree(NULL) is safe and the check 'if (pstat->passoc_req)' before kfree
> is not necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Longji Guo <guolongji@uniontech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 8 +++-----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> index 375d2a742dd2..a46ab97524aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> @@ -1344,11 +1344,9 @@ unsigned int OnAssocReq(struct adapter *padapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame)
>  			issue_asocrsp(padapter, status, pstat, WIFI_REASSOCRSP);
>  
>  		spin_lock_bh(&pstat->lock);
> -		if (pstat->passoc_req) {
> -			kfree(pstat->passoc_req);
> -			pstat->passoc_req = NULL;
> -			pstat->assoc_req_len = 0;
> -		}
> +		kfree(pstat->passoc_req);
> +		pstat->passoc_req = NULL;

This "pstat->passoc_req = NULL;" is not necessary, since directly afterwards
pstat->passoc_req gets overwritten with the return value from rtw_zmalloc()
so please drop this line too.

Regards,

Hans



> +		pstat->assoc_req_len = 0;
>  
>  		pstat->passoc_req =  rtw_zmalloc(pkt_len);
>  		if (pstat->passoc_req) {
>