This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: r8188eu: Calling rtw_get_stainfo() with a NULL sta_addr will
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 9452bf560273e4de2395ffdd79024debfb0c1290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:12:58 -0500
Subject: staging: r8188eu: Calling rtw_get_stainfo() with a NULL sta_addr will
return NULL
This makes the follow-on check for psta != NULL pointless and makes
the whole exercise rather pointless. This is another case of why
blindly zero-initializing variables when they are declared is bad.
Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
index 636ec553ae83..01fcabcc8e56 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static struct recv_frame *decryptor(struct adapter *padapter,
static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
struct recv_frame *precv_frame)
{
- u8 *psta_addr = NULL, *ptr;
+ u8 *psta_addr, *ptr;
uint auth_alg;
struct recv_frame *pfhdr;
struct sta_info *psta;
@@ -558,7 +558,6 @@ static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
- psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.dot11AuthAlgrthm;
@@ -566,6 +565,7 @@ static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
pfhdr = precv_frame;
pattrib = &pfhdr->attrib;
psta_addr = pattrib->ta;
+ psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
prtnframe = NULL;
--
1.9.0
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