linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: remove null check before vfree

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Message-ID: <f6ffc51d-fb39-5191-e2fa-1b3200b89d87@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:56:16 +0200
From:   Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>
To:     Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@...il.com>,
        Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>
Cc:     Larry.Finger@...inger.net, phil@...lpotter.co.uk,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, fabioaiuto83@...il.com,
        ross.schm.dev@...il.com, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, saurav.girepunje@...mail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: remove null check before vfree



On 8/28/21 21:47, Kari Argillander wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 09:30:14PM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
>> On 8/28/21 21:20, Michael Straube wrote:
>>> On 8/28/21 19:54, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
>>>> Remove NULL check. NULL check before freeing function is not needed.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c | 4 +---
>>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c
>>>> b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c
>>>> index f6dffed53a60..4726771a8403 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c
>>>> @@ -155,9 +155,7 @@ u32    _rtw_free_sta_priv(struct    sta_priv
>>>> *pstapriv)
>>>>            spin_unlock_bh(&pstapriv->sta_hash_lock);
>>>>            /*===============================*/
>>>>
>>>> -        if (pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf)
>>>> -            vfree(pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf);
>>>> -        }
>>>> +        vfree(pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf);
>>>>
>>>>        return _SUCCESS;
>>>>    }
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.32.0
>>>>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>
>> Whoops, I missed that you removed the } that belongs to the enclosing if
>> block. Probably because it is not properly indented in the original
>> code.
> 
> Easy to miss because that bracket is in wrong place in first place.
> 
> Michael can you now on even build test before sending. Thanks.
> 

Sure, I usually do. For this one I did not but obviously I should have..
;)