[PATCH 2/7] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: remove set but not used 'size'

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Apr 28 12:28:53 UTC 2020


On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:23:37AM +0800, Jason Yan wrote:
> And also remove the NULL check before kfree() because kfree() can handle
> NULL pointers correctly.
> 
> Fix the following gcc warning:
> 
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c:157:6: warning:
> variable ‘size’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>   u32 size = 0;
>       ^~~~
> 
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie at huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c | 11 -----------
>  1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> index 1ba85a43f05a..b037868fbf22 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> @@ -154,17 +154,6 @@ static struct ieee80211_supported_band *rtw_spt_band_alloc(
>  
>  static void rtw_spt_band_free(struct ieee80211_supported_band *spt_band)
>  {
> -	u32 size = 0;
> -
> -	if (!spt_band)
> -		return;
> -
> -	if (spt_band->band == NL80211_BAND_2GHZ)
> -	{
> -		size = sizeof(struct ieee80211_supported_band)
> -			+ sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel)*RTW_2G_CHANNELS_NUM
> -			+ sizeof(struct ieee80211_rate)*RTW_G_RATES_NUM;
> -	}
>  	kfree(spt_band);
>  }

This function can now be removed and replaced with the call to kfree(),
right?  Can you send a follow-on patch to do that?

thanks,

greg k-h


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