From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: remove unnecessary NULL check
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 08:20:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180904132001.GA31932@embeddedor.com> (raw)
Both old and new cannot be NULL at the same time, hence checking
new when old is not NULL is unnecessary.
Also, notice that new is being dereferenced before it is checked:
idx = new->conf.keyidx;
The above triggers a static code analysis warning.
Address this by removing the NULL check on new and adding a code
comment based on the following piece of code:
387 /* caller must provide at least one old/new */
388 if (WARN_ON(!new && !old))
389 return 0;
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1473176 ("Dereference before null check")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
net/mac80211/key.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c
index d6eeace..4700718 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/key.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
@@ -401,8 +401,9 @@ static int ieee80211_key_replace(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
* pairwise keys.*/
ret = ieee80211_hw_key_replace(old, new, pairwise);
} else {
+ /* new must be provided in case old is not */
idx = new->conf.keyidx;
- if (new && !new->local->wowlan)
+ if (!new->local->wowlan)
ret = ieee80211_key_enable_hw_accel(new);
else
ret = 0;
--
2.7.4
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