[PATCH 3.14 055/158] staging: r8188eu: Calling rtw_get_stainfo() with a NULL sta_addr will return NULL

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun May 04 2014 - 12:47:39 EST


3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 9452bf560273e4de2395ffdd79024debfb0c1290 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ _func_exit_;
/* set the security information in the recv_frame */
static union recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame)
{
- u8 *psta_addr = NULL, *ptr;
+ u8 *psta_addr, *ptr;
uint auth_alg;
struct recv_frame_hdr *pfhdr;
struct sta_info *psta;
@@ -556,7 +556,6 @@ static union recv_frame *portctrl(struct
_func_enter_;

pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
- psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);

auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.dot11AuthAlgrthm;

@@ -564,6 +563,7 @@ _func_enter_;
pfhdr = &precv_frame->u.hdr;
pattrib = &pfhdr->attrib;
psta_addr = pattrib->ta;
+ psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);

prtnframe = NULL;



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