Commit 53ee4bc4 authored by Arend van Spriel's avatar Arend van Spriel Committed by John W. Linville

brcm80211: util: remove pointer traversal from brcmu_pkt_buf_free_skb

The function brcmu_pkt_buf_free_skb() was following the next pointer
to free all linked packets. However, it is only called with unlinked
packets so this can be removed.
Reviewed-by: default avatarPieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 9a95e60e
......@@ -41,28 +41,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmu_pkt_buf_get_skb);
/* Free the driver packet. Free the tag if present */
void brcmu_pkt_buf_free_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct sk_buff *nskb;
int nest = 0;
/* perversion: we use skb->next to chain multi-skb packets */
while (skb) {
nskb = skb->next;
skb->next = NULL;
if (skb->destructor)
/* cannot kfree_skb() on hard IRQ (net/core/skbuff.c) if
* destructor exists
*/
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
else
/* can free immediately (even in_irq()) if destructor
* does not exist
*/
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
nest++;
skb = nskb;
}
WARN_ON(skb->next);
if (skb->destructor)
/* cannot kfree_skb() on hard IRQ (net/core/skbuff.c) if
* destructor exists
*/
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
else
/* can free immediately (even in_irq()) if destructor
* does not exist
*/
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmu_pkt_buf_free_skb);
......
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