netdev - [PATCH] wil6210: fix break that is never reached because of zero'ing of a retry counter

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:09:53 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, wil6210@....qualcomm.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] wil6210: fix break that is never reached because of zero'ing of a retry counter

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

There is a check on the retry counter invalid_buf_id_retry that is always
false because invalid_buf_id_retry is initialized to zero on each iteration
of a while-loop.  Fix this by initializing the retry counter before the
while-loop starts.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
Fixes: b4a967b7d0f5 ("wil6210: reset buff id in status message after completion")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---

Note: not tested, so I'm not sure if the loop retry threshold is high enough

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx_edma.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx_edma.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx_edma.c
index 778b63be6a9a..02548d40253c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx_edma.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx_edma.c
@@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *wil_sring_reap_rx_edma(struct wil6210_priv *wil,
 	u8 data_offset;
 	struct wil_rx_status_extended *s;
 	u16 sring_idx = sring - wil->srings;
+	int invalid_buff_id_retry;
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct wil_rx_status_extended) > sizeof(skb->cb));
 
@@ -882,9 +883,9 @@ static struct sk_buff *wil_sring_reap_rx_edma(struct wil6210_priv *wil,
 	/* Extract the buffer ID from the status message */
 	buff_id = le16_to_cpu(wil_rx_status_get_buff_id(msg));
 
+	invalid_buff_id_retry = 0;
 	while (!buff_id) {
 		struct wil_rx_status_extended *s;
-		int invalid_buff_id_retry = 0;
 
 		wil_dbg_txrx(wil,
 			     "buff_id is not updated yet by HW, (swhead 0x%x)\n",
-- 
2.20.1