Re: [RESEND V2 3/4] ath11k: switch to using ieee80211_tx_status_ext()

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> writes:

> On Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:10:04 CET Kalle Valo wrote:
> [...]
>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c
>> > index 7b532bf9acd8..66a6cfd54ad9 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c
>> > @@ -357,9 +357,12 @@ static void ath11k_dp_tx_complete_msdu(struct ath11k *ar,
>> >  				       struct sk_buff *msdu,
>> >  				       struct hal_tx_status *ts)
>> >  {
>> > +	struct ieee80211_tx_status status = { 0 };
>> 
>> This adds a sparse warning:
>> 
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c:350:47: warning: Using plain
>> integer as NULL pointer
>> 
>> Seems like a false warning, no? But not sure how to shut up the warning,
>> using '{ NULL }' would do that but just feels wrong. Any opinions?
>
> Why is this a false warning? The structure is following:
>
>     struct ieee80211_tx_status {
>     	struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
>     	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
>     	struct sk_buff *skb;
>     	struct rate_info *rate;
>     };
>
> And this is a pre-C99 initializer. The equal C99-Initializer would be
>
>     struct ieee80211_tx_status status = {
>     	.sta = NULL,
> 	};
>
> So it is initializing status.sta with 0. But status.sta is a pointer
> and we should use NULL for pointers instead of plain 0. If you want
> to initialize the object on stack to zero but not initialize each 
> member then just use {}.

Ah, of course. Thanks for pointing this out.

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