* [patch] ath9k: cleanup: remove unneeded null check
@ 2010-05-22 20:33 Dan Carpenter
2010-05-24 4:26 ` Sujith
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-05-22 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Luis R. Rodriguez
Cc: Jouni Malinen, Sujith Manoharan, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan,
Senthil Balasubramanian, John W. Linville, Ming Lei,
linux-wireless, ath9k-devel, kernel-janitors
We dereference "wmi" on the line before and also when we initialize "ah".
This check has always been after a dereference since the first commit a
couple months ago. Looking through the code, it looks like "wmi" can't
actually be null here so I just removed the check.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
index e23172c..6260faa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
@@ -279,9 +279,6 @@ int ath9k_wmi_cmd(struct wmi *wmi, enum wmi_cmd_id cmd_id,
if (wmi->drv_priv->op_flags & OP_UNPLUGGED)
return 0;
- if (!wmi)
- return -EINVAL;
-
skb = alloc_skb(headroom + cmd_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;
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* [patch] ath9k: cleanup: remove unneeded null check
2010-05-22 20:33 [patch] ath9k: cleanup: remove unneeded null check Dan Carpenter
@ 2010-05-24 4:26 ` Sujith
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sujith @ 2010-05-24 4:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Carpenter
Cc: Luis Rodriguez, Jouni Malinen, Vasanth Thiagarajan,
Senthilkumar Balasubramanian, John W. Linville, Ming Lei,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We dereference "wmi" on the line before and also when we initialize "ah".
> This check has always been after a dereference since the first commit a
> couple months ago. Looking through the code, it looks like "wmi" can't
> actually be null here so I just removed the check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Thanks.
Acked-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
> index e23172c..6260faa 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
> @@ -279,9 +279,6 @@ int ath9k_wmi_cmd(struct wmi *wmi, enum wmi_cmd_id cmd_id,
> if (wmi->drv_priv->op_flags & OP_UNPLUGGED)
> return 0;
>
> - if (!wmi)
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> skb = alloc_skb(headroom + cmd_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
> if (!skb)
> return -ENOMEM;
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