mac80211: backport brcmfmac changes from 2016-09-26
[openwrt/openwrt.git] / package / kernel / mac80211 / patches / 319-0025-brcmfmac-remove-unnecessary-null-pointer-check.patch
1 From 835680b82f029818c813324aed3073cdcf63241f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
3 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:09:56 +0100
4 Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: remove unnecessary null pointer check
5
6 in the function brcmf_bus_start() in the exception handling a
7 check is made to dermine whether ifp is null, though this is not
8 possible. Removing the unnessary check.
9
10 Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
11 Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
12 Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
13 Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
14 Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
15 Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
16 ---
17 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 +--
18 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
19
20 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
21 +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
22 @@ -1048,8 +1048,7 @@ fail:
23 brcmf_fws_del_interface(ifp);
24 brcmf_fws_deinit(drvr);
25 }
26 - if (ifp)
27 - brcmf_net_detach(ifp->ndev, false);
28 + brcmf_net_detach(ifp->ndev, false);
29 if (p2p_ifp)
30 brcmf_net_detach(p2p_ifp->ndev, false);
31 drvr->iflist[0] = NULL;