netdev - Re: [PATCH][next] iwlwifi: mvm: remove division by size of sizeof(struct ieee80211_wmm

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Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:06:33 +0300
From:   Luca Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] iwlwifi: mvm: remove division by size of
 sizeof(struct ieee80211_wmm_rule)

On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 14:05 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The subtraction of two struct ieee80211_wmm_rule pointers leaves a
> result
> that is automatically scaled down by the size of the size of pointed-
> to
> type, hence the division by sizeof(struct ieee80211_wmm_rule) is
> bogus and should be removed.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1467777 ("Extra sizeof expression")
> 
> Fixes: 77e30e10ee28 ("iwlwifi: mvm: query regdb for wmm rule if
> needed")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---

Thanks, Colin! I've pushed this to our internal tree for review and if
everything goes fine it will land upstream following our normal
upstreaming process.

--
Cheers,
Luca.