Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 1 author, 2011-09-30
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[PATCH 2/2] mwifiex: handle an error path correctly

From: Bing Zhao <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-30 03:44:08
Subsystem: networking drivers (wireless), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

From: Amitkumar Karwar <redacted>

In failure case locks are not allocated in mwifiex_register().
So mwifiex_free_lock_list() routine call becomes redundant.
Also we don't need to check return type for mwifiex_init_lock_list()
routine. It never fails.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
index 8b05b4f..8486451 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ static int mwifiex_register(void *card, struct mwifiex_if_ops *if_ops,
 	adapter->priv_num++;
 
 	adapter->priv[0]->adapter = adapter;
-	if (mwifiex_init_lock_list(adapter))
-		goto error;
+	mwifiex_init_lock_list(adapter);
 
 	init_timer(&adapter->cmd_timer);
 	adapter->cmd_timer.function = mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func;
@@ -87,8 +86,6 @@ static int mwifiex_register(void *card, struct mwifiex_if_ops *if_ops,
 error:
 	dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "info: leave mwifiex_register with error\n");
 
-	mwifiex_free_lock_list(adapter);
-
 	for (i = 0; i < adapter->priv_num; i++)
 		kfree(adapter->priv[i]);
 
-- 
1.7.0.2
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