Trial Patch

nick xerofoify at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 09:24:15 EDT 2014



On 14-09-09 08:42 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:22:59AM -0400, nick wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 14-09-08 11:08 PM, nick wrote:
>>> I am attaching a trial patch again , please let me known if there are any issues for me to fix.
>>> Nick 
>>>
>> This patch is wrong, checkpatch errors. I am attaching another fixed version.
>> Sorry Nick 
> 
>> >From 1d6378589ab97cc646e2a3717413077453e4e80b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:30:37 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH] staging: Fix Null check for allocating skb in r8192E_firmware.c
>>
>> This patch checks in fw_download_code for if the allocated skb is
>> NULl. Further more if the skb is null and we are in the loop,
>> clean up and dequeune the skb quenue. In additon return false
>> directly in the if statement and return true by itself removing
>> rt_status to improve the code's readablitiy of return statements
>> in fw_download_code.
>>
> 
> lots of spelling mistake .. what is NuLl ? 
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 7 +++++--
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> index 1a95d1f..6988e1c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>>  			     u32 buffer_len)
>>  {
>>  	struct r8192_priv *priv = rtllib_priv(dev);
>> -	bool		    rt_status = true;
>>  	u16		    frag_threshold;
>>  	u16		    frag_length, frag_offset = 0;
>>  	int		    i;
>> @@ -61,6 +60,10 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>>  		}
>>  
>>  		skb  = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4);
>> +		if (skb == NULL) {
>> +				skb_dequeue(&priv->rtllib->skb_waitQ[TXCMD_QUEUE]);
> 
> 	again checkpatch warning of line over 80 char
> 
>> +				return false;
>> +		}
>>  		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;
>> @@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>>  
>>  	write_nic_byte(dev, TPPoll, TPPoll_CQ);
>>  
>> -	return rt_status;
>> +	return true;
>>  }
>>  
>>  static bool CPUcheck_maincodeok_turnonCPU(struct net_device *dev)
>> -- 
>> 1.9.1
>>
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Thanks for the feedback, Guys. I will look over this latter and try and fix it.
Nick



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