* [patch] ath9k: remove some bogus error handling code
@ 2011-10-05 5:48 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2011-10-05 5:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Luis R. Rodriguez
Cc: Jouni Malinen, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan, Senthil Balasubramanian,
John W. Linville, linux-wireless, ath9k-devel, kernel-janitors
If "axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)", then the call to
ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue() would read beyond the end of the ah->txq[]
array and possibly corrupt memory. Fortunately,
ath9k_hw_setuptxqueue() doesn't return high values of "axq_qnum" and
this code can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index fa3dcfd..fa1c85d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -1255,7 +1255,6 @@ static void ath_txq_drain_pending_buffers(struct ath_softc *sc,
struct ath_txq *ath_txq_setup(struct ath_softc *sc, int qtype, int subtype)
{
struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;
- struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(ah);
struct ath9k_tx_queue_info qi;
static const int subtype_txq_to_hwq[] = {
[WME_AC_BE] = ATH_TXQ_AC_BE,
@@ -1305,12 +1304,6 @@ struct ath_txq *ath_txq_setup(struct ath_softc *sc, int qtype, int subtype)
*/
return NULL;
}
- if (axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)) {
- ath_err(common, "qnum %u out of range, max %zu!\n",
- axq_qnum, ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq));
- ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue(ah, axq_qnum);
- return NULL;
- }
if (!ATH_TXQ_SETUP(sc, axq_qnum)) {
struct ath_txq *txq = &sc->tx.txq[axq_qnum];
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