From 9452bf560273e4de2395ffdd79024debfb0c1290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:12:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Calling rtw_get_stainfo() with a NULL
 sta_addr will return NULL

This makes the follow-on check for psta != NULL pointless and makes
the whole exercise rather pointless. This is another case of why
blindly zero-initializing variables when they are declared is bad.

Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
index 636ec553ae83..01fcabcc8e56 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static struct recv_frame *decryptor(struct adapter *padapter,
 static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
 				   struct recv_frame *precv_frame)
 {
-	u8   *psta_addr = NULL, *ptr;
+	u8   *psta_addr, *ptr;
 	uint  auth_alg;
 	struct recv_frame *pfhdr;
 	struct sta_info *psta;
@@ -558,7 +558,6 @@ static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
 
 
 	pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
-	psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
 
 	auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.dot11AuthAlgrthm;
 
@@ -566,6 +565,7 @@ static struct recv_frame *portctrl(struct adapter *adapter,
 	pfhdr = precv_frame;
 	pattrib = &pfhdr->attrib;
 	psta_addr = pattrib->ta;
+	psta = rtw_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
 
 	prtnframe = NULL;
 
-- 
2.30.9