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* [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: remove redundant null check on array 'data'
@ 2019-04-04  9:32 Colin King
  2019-04-04  9:41 ` Dan Carpenter
  2019-04-04 10:16 ` Mukesh Ojha
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Colin King @ 2019-04-04  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, John Whitmore, devel; +Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

The NULL check on ram->u.wpa_ie.data is redudant as data is
zero-length array and is not a pointer, so it can't be null.
Remove the check.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Array compared against 0")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
index 944c8894f9ff..c4a4f118f547 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
@@ -2659,8 +2659,7 @@ static int ieee80211_wpa_set_wpa_ie(struct ieee80211_device *ieee,
 {
 	u8 *buf;
 
-	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN ||
-	    (param->u.wpa_ie.len && param->u.wpa_ie.data == NULL))
+	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN || param->u.wpa_ie.len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len) {
-- 
2.20.1


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* Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: remove redundant null check on array 'data'
  2019-04-04  9:32 [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: remove redundant null check on array 'data' Colin King
@ 2019-04-04  9:41 ` Dan Carpenter
  2019-04-04 10:16 ` Mukesh Ojha
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2019-04-04  9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Colin King
  Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, John Whitmore, devel, kernel-janitors, linux-kernel

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> index 944c8894f9ff..c4a4f118f547 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> @@ -2659,8 +2659,7 @@ static int ieee80211_wpa_set_wpa_ie(struct ieee80211_device *ieee,
>  {
>  	u8 *buf;
>  
> -	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN ||
> -	    (param->u.wpa_ie.len && param->u.wpa_ie.data == NULL))
> +	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN || param->u.wpa_ie.len)
>  		return -EINVAL;

Nope...  :P  Don't do that...

regards,
dan carpenter


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* Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: remove redundant null check on array 'data'
  2019-04-04  9:32 [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: remove redundant null check on array 'data' Colin King
  2019-04-04  9:41 ` Dan Carpenter
@ 2019-04-04 10:16 ` Mukesh Ojha
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mukesh Ojha @ 2019-04-04 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Colin King, Greg Kroah-Hartman, John Whitmore, devel
  Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel


On 4/4/2019 3:02 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The NULL check on ram->u.wpa_ie.data is redudant as data is
s/redudant/redundant
> zero-length array and is not a pointer, so it can't be null.
> Remove the check.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Array compared against 0")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

fix the commit text minor err

Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>

Cheers,
-Mukesh

> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> index 944c8894f9ff..c4a4f118f547 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> @@ -2659,8 +2659,7 @@ static int ieee80211_wpa_set_wpa_ie(struct ieee80211_device *ieee,
>   {
>   	u8 *buf;
>   
> -	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN ||
> -	    (param->u.wpa_ie.len && param->u.wpa_ie.data == NULL))
> +	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN || param->u.wpa_ie.len)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   
>   	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len) {

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