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| author | Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> | 2011-11-10 20:30:30 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-11-11 14:28:43 -0500 |
| commit | 53ee4bc46784ad53d0a9be52e8d687dd4e89a055 (patch) | |
| tree | 6cad8986e1c920431b2012e0a34804d5d0aa1c96 /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil | |
| parent | 9a95e60e0610bb8ec39c74d2c8546514a76428df (diff) | |
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: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil/utils.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil/utils.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil/utils.c index 3a92f72caef..b7537f70a79 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil/utils.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil/utils.c @@ -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); |