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From: William Hansen-Baird <william.hansen.baird@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: rtl8723bs: core/rtw_mlme_ext.c: refactor security IE parsing in OnAssocReq
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:58:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aX57AZmBhzbKqQoc@william-fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026012714-discount-wavy-ba95@gregkh>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 03:39:44PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 11:08:47AM -0500, William Hansen-Baird wrote:
> > +	parse_status = rtw_parse_assoc_security_ies(padapter, &elems, pstat);
> > +	if (parse_status != WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS)
> > +		status = parse_status;
> >  
> >  	if (status != WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS)
> >  		goto OnAssocReqFail;
> 
> This logic makes no sense.  Did you do this by hand or have a tool do it
> for you?
> 

I did it by hand. The original code checked the status after parsing
security IEs, only overwriting 'status' on parsing errors. 

To preserve the original logic, I only overwrite 'status' if the parsing 
of the security IEs was not successful.

Thanks,
William

      reply	other threads:[~2026-01-31 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-16 16:08 [PATCH 1/5] staging: rtl8723bs: core/rtw_mlme_ext.c: refactor security IE parsing in OnAssocReq William Hansen-Baird
2026-01-16 16:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] staging: rtl8723bs: core/rtw_mlme_ext.c: remove unnecessary else statement William Hansen-Baird
2026-01-16 16:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] staging: rtl8723bs: core/rtw_mlme_ext.c: remove braces for one-line if-statements William Hansen-Baird
2026-01-16 16:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8723bs: replace ternary comparison with min_t() William Hansen-Baird
2026-01-27 14:37   ` Greg KH
2026-01-16 16:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] staging: rtl8723bs: core/rtw_mlme_ext.c: initialize copy_len, clearing later control-flow William Hansen-Baird
2026-01-27 14:38   ` Greg KH
2026-01-31 22:10     ` William Hansen-Baird
2026-01-27 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] staging: rtl8723bs: core/rtw_mlme_ext.c: refactor security IE parsing in OnAssocReq Greg KH
2026-01-31 21:58   ` William Hansen-Baird [this message]

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