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Message-ID: <559CE207.5000507@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:40:39 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>, Dean Lee <dean.lee@...el.com>,
	Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
	Rachel Kim <rachel.kim@...el.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: staging: wilc1000: One function call less in mac_ioctl() after
 error detection

>> The kfree() function was called in two cases by the mac_ioctl() function
>> during error handling even if the passed variable did not contain a pointer
>> for a valid data item.
>>
>> * This implementation detail could be improved by the introduction
>>   of another jump label.
>>
>> * Drop an unnecessary initialisation for the variable "buff" then.
> 
> That's a different issue, please fix it in a separate patch.

I have got an other opinion here.
This update suggestion depends on a small source code clean-up
from the previous patch, doesn't it?

Do you want that I split the second suggestion from this series
into more steps?

Regards,
Markus
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