netdev - [PATCH] mac80211: Remove redundant checks for NULL before calls to crypto_free

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1011042251520.16015@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:59:56 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove redundant checks for NULL before calls to
 crypto_free_cipher()

Hello,

crypto_free_cipher() is a wrapper around crypto_free_tfm() which is a 
wrapper around crypto_destroy_tfm() and the latter can handle being passed 
a NULL pointer, so checking for NULL in the 
ieee80211_aes_key_free()/ieee80211_aes_cmac_key_free() wrappers around 
crypto_free_cipher() is pointless and just increase object code size 
needlesly and makes us execute extra test/branch instructions that we 
don't need.
Btw; don't we have to many wrappers around wrappers ad nauseam here?
Anyway, this patch removes the redundant conditionals.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 aes_ccm.c  |    3 +--
 aes_cmac.c |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/aes_ccm.c b/net/mac80211/aes_ccm.c
index d2b03e0..4bd6ef0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/aes_ccm.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/aes_ccm.c
@@ -147,6 +147,5 @@ struct crypto_cipher *ieee80211_aes_key_setup_encrypt(const u8 key[])
 
 void ieee80211_aes_key_free(struct crypto_cipher *tfm)
 {
-	if (tfm)
-		crypto_free_cipher(tfm);
+	crypto_free_cipher(tfm);
 }
diff --git a/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c b/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c
index b4d66cc..d502b26 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c
@@ -128,6 +128,5 @@ struct crypto_cipher * ieee80211_aes_cmac_key_setup(const u8 key[])
 
 void ieee80211_aes_cmac_key_free(struct crypto_cipher *tfm)
 {
-	if (tfm)
-		crypto_free_cipher(tfm);
+	crypto_free_cipher(tfm);
 }



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