ath9k: remove some bogus error handling code
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:48:20 +0000 (08:48 +0300)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:41:10 +0000 (16:41 -0400)
If "axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)", then the call to
ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue() would read beyond the end of the ah->txq[]
array and possibly corrupt memory.  Fortunately,
ath9k_hw_setuptxqueue() doesn't return high values of "axq_qnum" and
this code can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c

index c2bfc57958d82a2737f405167f5f4217f5266f03..b4a07718b3007dd7603a69fe13ff649ed349d950 100644 (file)
@@ -1255,7 +1255,6 @@ static void ath_txq_drain_pending_buffers(struct ath_softc *sc,
 struct ath_txq *ath_txq_setup(struct ath_softc *sc, int qtype, int subtype)
 {
        struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;
-       struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(ah);
        struct ath9k_tx_queue_info qi;
        static const int subtype_txq_to_hwq[] = {
                [WME_AC_BE] = ATH_TXQ_AC_BE,
@@ -1305,12 +1304,6 @@ struct ath_txq *ath_txq_setup(struct ath_softc *sc, int qtype, int subtype)
                 */
                return NULL;
        }
-       if (axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)) {
-               ath_err(common, "qnum %u out of range, max %zu!\n",
-                       axq_qnum, ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq));
-               ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue(ah, axq_qnum);
-               return NULL;
-       }
        if (!ATH_TXQ_SETUP(sc, axq_qnum)) {
                struct ath_txq *txq = &sc->tx.txq[axq_qnum];