From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752197AbbGGEBG (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 00:01:06 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38765 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751418AbbGGEAr (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 00:00:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 19:31:50 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: Chris Park , Dean Lee , Johnny Kim , Rachel Kim , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: wilc1000: One function call less in mac_ioctl() after error detection Message-ID: <20150707023150.GB22043@kroah.com> References: <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB32E.6090003@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB524.1050609@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <558EB524.1050609@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+89 (0255b37be491) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 04:37:24PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > From: Markus Elfring > Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:00:59 +0200 Again, please fix. > > The kfree() function was called in two cases by the mac_ioctl() function > during error handling even if the passed variable did not contain a pointer > for a valid data item. > > * This implementation detail could be improved by the introduction > of another jump label. > > * Drop an unnecessary initialisation for the variable "buff" then. That's a different issue, please fix it in a separate patch. thanks, greg k-h