[Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove comparisons to NULL in conditionals

Wambui Karuga wambui.karugax at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 17:32:38 UTC 2019


On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 02:08:47PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 02:07:17PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 01:54:04PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 04:15:29PM +0300, Wambui Karuga wrote:
> > > >  	psetauthparm = rtw_zmalloc(sizeof(struct setauth_parm));
> > > > -	if (psetauthparm == NULL) {
> > > > -		kfree(pcmd);
> > > > +	if (!psetauthparm) {
> > > > +		kfree((unsigned char *)pcmd);
> > > 
> > > This new cast is unnecessary and weird.
> > 
> > Ah, I missed that, good catch.  I'll go drop this patch now.
> 
> And that caused the second patch to get dropped as well.  I'll just drop
> them all, can you redo the whole series please?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
The cast seems to have been removed earlier by Nachammai Karuppiah and
added to staging-testing, but I added it back when I cherry-picked my changes to the new
file. 

Sorry. :(
I can remove the cast and send a new series.
Thanks.

wambui karuga


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