net/wireless/scan.c:552:2: warning: Assignment of function parameter has no effect outside the function. Did you forget dereferencing

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   fab0fca1da5cdc48be051715cd9787df04fdce3a
commit: c8cb5b854b40f2ce52ccd032fa19750f4181d5fc nl80211/cfg80211: support 6 GHz scanning
compiler: c6x-elf-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0

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Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx>


cppcheck possible warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>, may not real problems)

>> net/wireless/scan.c:552:2: warning: Assignment of function parameter has no effect outside the function. Did you forget dereferencing it? [uselessAssignmentPtrArg]
    pos++;
    ^

vim +552 net/wireless/scan.c

c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  530  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  531  static int cfg80211_parse_ap_info(struct cfg80211_colocated_ap *entry,
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  532  				  const u8 *pos, u8 length,
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  533  				  const struct element *ssid_elem,
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  534  				  int s_ssid_tmp)
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  535  {
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  536  	/* skip the TBTT offset */
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  537  	pos++;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  538  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  539  	memcpy(entry->bssid, pos, ETH_ALEN);
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  540  	pos += ETH_ALEN;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  541  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  542  	if (length == IEEE80211_TBTT_INFO_OFFSET_BSSID_SSSID_BSS_PARAM) {
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  543  		memcpy(&entry->short_ssid, pos,
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  544  		       sizeof(entry->short_ssid));
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  545  		entry->short_ssid_valid = true;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  546  		pos += 4;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  547  	}
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  548  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  549  	/* skip non colocated APs */
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  550  	if (!cfg80211_parse_bss_param(*pos, entry))
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  551  		return -EINVAL;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18 @552  	pos++;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  553  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  554  	if (length == IEEE80211_TBTT_INFO_OFFSET_BSSID_BSS_PARAM) {
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  555  		/*
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  556  		 * no information about the short ssid. Consider the entry valid
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  557  		 * for now. It would later be dropped in case there are explicit
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  558  		 * SSIDs that need to be matched
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  559  		 */
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  560  		if (!entry->same_ssid)
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  561  			return 0;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  562  	}
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  563  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  564  	if (entry->same_ssid) {
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  565  		entry->short_ssid = s_ssid_tmp;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  566  		entry->short_ssid_valid = true;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  567  
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  568  		/*
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  569  		 * This is safe because we validate datalen in
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  570  		 * cfg80211_parse_colocated_ap(), before calling this
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  571  		 * function.
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  572  		 */
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  573  		memcpy(&entry->ssid, &ssid_elem->data,
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  574  		       ssid_elem->datalen);
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  575  		entry->ssid_len = ssid_elem->datalen;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  576  	}
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  577  	return 0;
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  578  }
c8cb5b854b40f2c Tova Mussai 2020-09-18  579  

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