Trial Patch

[sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com (Sudip Mukherjee)]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:22:59AM -0400, nick wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14-09-08 11:08 PM, nick wrote:
> > I am attaching a trial patch again , please let me known if there are any issues for me to fix.
> > Nick 
> > 
> This patch is wrong, checkpatch errors. I am attaching another fixed version.
> Sorry Nick 

> >From 1d6378589ab97cc646e2a3717413077453e4e80b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:30:37 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] staging: Fix Null check for allocating skb in r8192E_firmware.c
> 
> This patch checks in fw_download_code for if the allocated skb is
> NULl. Further more if the skb is null and we are in the loop,
> clean up and dequeune the skb quenue. In additon return false
> directly in the if statement and return true by itself removing
> rt_status to improve the code's readablitiy of return statements
> in fw_download_code.
> 

lots of spelling mistake .. what is NuLl ? 

> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
> index 1a95d1f..6988e1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>  			     u32 buffer_len)
>  {
>  	struct r8192_priv *priv = rtllib_priv(dev);
> -	bool		    rt_status = true;
>  	u16		    frag_threshold;
>  	u16		    frag_length, frag_offset = 0;
>  	int		    i;
> @@ -61,6 +60,10 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>  		}
>  
>  		skb  = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4);
> +		if (skb == NULL) {
> +				skb_dequeue(&priv->rtllib->skb_waitQ[TXCMD_QUEUE]);

	again checkpatch warning of line over 80 char

> +				return false;
> +		}
>  		memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev));
>  		tcb_desc = (struct cb_desc *)(skb->cb + MAX_DEV_ADDR_SIZE);
>  		tcb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE;
> @@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>  
>  	write_nic_byte(dev, TPPoll, TPPoll_CQ);
>  
> -	return rt_status;
> +	return true;
>  }
>  
>  static bool CPUcheck_maincodeok_turnonCPU(struct net_device *dev)
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

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