Re: [patch 1/2] ipw2x00: remove unused ->ibss_dfs pointer

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Hello Dan,

On 9 October 2014 02:57, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ->ibss_dfs pointer is always allocated with a user controlled
> length.  This caused a static checker warning because what if the length
> was zero?  In that case, any dereference of ->ibss_dfs would lead to an
> Oops.
>
> It turns out that this isn't a problem because the ->ibss_dfs pointer is
> never used.  This patch deletes it along with all the related code.  In
> particular the entire libipw_network_reset() function can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine, thanks.

Stanislav.
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