From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-lf1-f54.google.com (mail-lf1-f54.google.com [209.85.167.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 048171385; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf1-f54.google.com with SMTP id p10so31134646lfa.12; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:27:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject:content-language:to :cc:references:from:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lhlyNCLzJ6McMJUtv9VTMDlhizwAjxEKxLhqW8mvjg8=; b=SopT+69Xn63wAziS3TcdW2Qm1lTV+/qLNJX3k3gPKVzHHiPEPyBrlUJcsL+bA+c1kt +X52z/O9bMTR/wrFsHi1gakrNsfORvZFFVYzzFcmoEPRug0VXEl2Iw8brkytl+TztN05 tmjiv0+uf6fLiAM7PYkTvVpDwNbDg2fVhEl4ieEJJLeRubz2bBDExDRiFTYGmYJyCsEh P3gvAnAjPZezZFMTzgrV1esWyBP6px8Q9GgtgYzfdRca0+Rm9CStqIh5OxQZBP8+cEVd BoGf+eiHXvbLTk9URBuN1FjP2mlpyAXVKO5niQ/MKiYuPhbSbgdYFg+j+wH5w23s2Bdg Gpfw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lhlyNCLzJ6McMJUtv9VTMDlhizwAjxEKxLhqW8mvjg8=; b=8QOUALdJAHYX7elI3ODS9wKi/44l/8oSyU2btpD24bW5YXG/q8C5bjZjqPSKZO4yI/ xJw8PlK74jFFkg2dfeX8YsCB40M/AD2lbsmVGfudZeyMMekQ51UbECkxPynACZoBnZJz /Q6QVl7TA1mr8jMNfxUHrviFFQOEvsmP1ASoTAwyYJdED60FYes4wN/lDYTxGOH4c/1I RoE2F2Y+mu7caiwJNB7V0FYmBS282mjge9Gvd/qvQUB4vkOqBMP+C6vIbbIzPhVM7GOO NkoNrcsv4cirjsDkphqnhiij8g3438yLOw3tmc2XlNtJP0GzYpI6DqjLcqHp1+41iQhr vryw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5306AZMNfoPmZ6+Y1Qd1OjkYWXjugC7qIa+ehRRk9G958SIH115J UaRswvKB0+pKmpJyGAWBSAI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyG6Y2wM2dlef5vHBfqM+j2lOpiyejc/Vlsh69n+HFv187qrGImjua7LcKfLwi08QZ069kY0w== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6512:318a:b0:471:8f3b:e2bd with SMTP id i10-20020a056512318a00b004718f3be2bdmr8179411lfe.129.1650396426859; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([94.103.225.17]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s14-20020a2e2c0e000000b0024db3275cd4sm1034812ljs.12.2022.04.19.12.27.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32587233-0ff6-ed0f-b873-cd4f797005a9@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:27:05 +0300 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] staging: r8188eu: remove unused member free_bss_buf Content-Language: en-US To: Jaehee Park , Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Cc: phil@philpotter.co.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev References: <3c5a510938ac395a13bb09c0de1868cce8ca3dd8.1650392020.git.jhpark1013@gmail.com> From: Pavel Skripkin In-Reply-To: <3c5a510938ac395a13bb09c0de1868cce8ca3dd8.1650392020.git.jhpark1013@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jaehee, On 4/19/22 21:19, Jaehee Park wrote: > The free_bss_buf member of pmlmepriv is unused. Remove all related > lines. > > Suggested-by: Pavel Skripkin > Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park > --- [code snip] > @@ -55,16 +54,6 @@ static int _rtw_init_mlme_priv(struct adapter *padapter) > > memset(&pmlmepriv->assoc_ssid, 0, sizeof(struct ndis_802_11_ssid)); > > - pbuf = vzalloc(MAX_BSS_CNT * (sizeof(struct wlan_network))); > - > - if (!pbuf) { > - res = _FAIL; > - goto exit; > - } > - pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf = pbuf; > - > - pnetwork = (struct wlan_network *)pbuf; > - > for (i = 0; i < MAX_BSS_CNT; i++) { > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pnetwork->list); > And now kernel will just boom here :) I am sorry for not noticing that from the beginning, that's my fault. This pointer is used in very weird way, so let's come back to initial patch: just remove 'if' before vfree(). Refactoring that place is the separate task I am again sorry for wrong suggestion, With regards, Pavel Skripkin