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Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 07:46:57 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ian W MORRISON <ianwmorrison@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8723bs: remove re-positioned call to
 kfree in os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
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On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:47:50AM +1000, Ian W MORRISON wrote:
> The following patch was sent to linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org and
> various wifi driver developers however I've just realized that I
> should have sent it to driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org. It was
> reviewed on 01 May with the following comment: "Patch looks good to
> me: Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>".
> 
> This patch is to remove the re-positioned call to kfree() in
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c which otherwise
> results in segmentation fault.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian W Morrison <linuxium@linuxium.com.au>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> index f17f4fb..2ee9df5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> @@ -3527,7 +3527,6 @@ int rtw_wdev_alloc(struct adapter *padapter,
> struct device *dev)
>                 pwdev_priv->power_mgmt = true;
>         else
>                 pwdev_priv->power_mgmt = false;
> -       kfree((u8 *)wdev);
> 
>         return ret;

Whitespace is also messed up here :(