Forget this Patch( not checkpatched)

[Nick Krause]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This patch checks if we are getting a Null allocated skb in the while/do
>> loop of this function. Further more no reference checking is needing
>> as skb_put is only working with the packet defined by skb and not allocating
>> a new one. Further more I am breaking out of the loop in order to make sure
>> we call nic_write_byte and cause no errors with writing the nic byte(s) of
>> private date and then call rt_status which I changed to false in the loop
>> with my additon of checking the allocated skb.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> index 1a95d1f..829af66 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> @@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>>                 }
>>
>>                 skb  = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4);
>> +               if( skb == NULL) {
>> +                       rt_status =  false ;
>> +                       break;
>> +               }
>>                 memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev));
>>                 tcb_desc = (struct cb_desc *)(skb->cb + MAX_DEV_ADDR_SIZE);
>>                 tcb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE;
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
> If you didn't read my other emails, skb_put is not allocating another
> skb and therefore no memory leaks
> as you guys stated. By the way thanks for the input, I should have
> read the code more carefully first.
> Nick

I forget to run through check patch , please forget it.