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[1/3] staging: r8188eu: Calling rtw_get_stainfo() with a NULL sta_addr will return NULL

Message ID 1397059980-11942-2-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Larry Finger April 9, 2014, 4:12 p.m. UTC 
This makes the follow-on check for psta != NULL pointless and makes
the whole exercise rather pointless. This is another case of why
blindly zero-initializing variables when they are declared is bad.

Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
index 636ec55..01fcabc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@  static struct recv_frame *decryptor(struct adapter *padapter,
 static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
 				   struct recv_frame *precv_frame)
 {
-	u8   *psta_addr = NULL, *ptr;
+	u8   *psta_addr, *ptr;
 	uint  auth_alg;
 	struct recv_frame *pfhdr;
 	struct sta_info *psta;
@@ -558,7 +558,6 @@  static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
 
 
 	pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
-	psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
 
 	auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.dot11AuthAlgrthm;
 
@@ -566,6 +565,7 @@  static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
 	pfhdr = precv_frame;
 	pattrib = &pfhdr->attrib;
 	psta_addr = pattrib->ta;
+	psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
 
 	prtnframe = NULL;