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[79.43.11.75]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e35-20020a056402332300b004209638cb94sm1960352eda.6.2022.04.14.21.29.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:29:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" To: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, Jaehee Park Cc: phil@philpotter.co.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev, jhpark1013@gmail.com, Pavel Skripkin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] staging: r8188eu: remove unused member free_bss_buf Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:29:15 +0200 Message-ID: <3608313.MHq7AAxBmi@leap> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" On venerd=EC 15 aprile 2022 04:48:32 CEST Jaehee Park wrote: > The free_bss_buf member of pmlmepriv is unused. Remove all related > lines. >=20 > Suggested-by: Pavel Skripkin > Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park > --- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mlme.h | 1 - > drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 7 ------- > 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-) >=20 > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mlme.h b/drivers/ staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mlme.h > index 1dc1fbf049af..0f03ac43079c 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mlme.h > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mlme.h > @@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ struct mlme_priv { > struct list_head *pscanned; > struct __queue free_bss_pool; > struct __queue scanned_queue; > - u8 *free_bss_buf; > u8 key_mask; /* use to restore wep key after hal_init */ > u32 num_of_scanned; > =20 > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/ r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c > index 3e9882f89f76..aed868d1d47b 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c > @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ static int _rtw_init_mlme_priv(struct adapter=20 *padapter) > res =3D _FAIL; > goto exit; > } > - pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf =3D pbuf; Hi Jaehee, "pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf" is assigned with "pbuf". The latter is a pointer= =20 to virtually contiguous memory which was allocated by vmalloc() or=20 vzalloc() (I didn't check, but the vfree() in _rtw_free_mlme_priv() tells=20 me that indeed it was). > pnetwork =3D (struct wlan_network *)pbuf; > =20 > @@ -109,13 +108,7 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct mlme_priv=20 *pmlmepriv) > =20 > void _rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) > { > - > rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); > - > - if (pmlmepriv) { > - vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); > - } Therefore, here you are causing a memory leak, which is something you=20 should avoid :)=20 Why did you delete that call to vfree()?=20 I think that you are misunderstanding what Pavel said. Even if it were true= =20 that the code makes no use of that region of memory (again, I didn't=20 check), nevertheless, that memory was allocated somewhere and its address=20 is now in "pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf". If you can confirm that this memory is allocated for no purpose you should= =20 also remove the call to vmalloc() / vzalloc(). Thanks, =46abio M. De Francesco =20 > - > } > =20 > struct wlan_network *_rtw_alloc_network(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)/*=20 _queue *free_queue) */ > --=20 > 2.25.1 >