[PATCH 1/3] staging: r8712u: delete unnecessary field initialization

Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr
Sat Feb 15 07:36:11 UTC 2014


From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>

On success, the function netdev_alloc_skb initializes the dev field of its
result to its first argument, so this doesn't have to be done in the
calling context.

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression skb,privn,e;
@@

skb = netdev_alloc_skb(privn,...);
... when strict
(
-skb->dev = privn;
|
?skb = e
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
index ea96537..0723b2f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ int r8712_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv *precvpriv, struct _adapter *padapter)
 		pskb = netdev_alloc_skb(padapter->pnetdev, MAX_RECVBUF_SZ +
 		       RECVBUFF_ALIGN_SZ);
 		if (pskb) {
-			pskb->dev = padapter->pnetdev;
 			tmpaddr = (addr_t)pskb->data;
 			alignment = tmpaddr & (RECVBUFF_ALIGN_SZ-1);
 			skb_reserve(pskb, (RECVBUFF_ALIGN_SZ - alignment));
@@ -1083,7 +1082,6 @@ static int recvbuf2recvframe(struct _adapter *padapter, struct sk_buff *pskb)
 		alloc_sz += 6;
 		pkt_copy = netdev_alloc_skb(padapter->pnetdev, alloc_sz);
 		if (pkt_copy) {
-			pkt_copy->dev = padapter->pnetdev;
 			precvframe->u.hdr.pkt = pkt_copy;
 			skb_reserve(pkt_copy, 4 - ((addr_t)(pkt_copy->data)
 				    % 4));



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