Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove redundant NULL check on premainder_ie
From: Ethan Tidmore
Date: Sat Feb 21 2026 - 13:45:27 EST
On Sat Feb 21, 2026 at 6:47 AM CST, Giorgi Tchankvetadze wrote:
> premainder_ie is computed as pwps_ie + wps_ielen, where pwps_ie is
> already validated non-NULL earlier in the function. Pointer arithmetic
> on a non-NULL pointer can never yield NULL, making this check always
> true and misleading. Replace with a simple check on remainder_ielen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Giorgi Tchankvetadze <giorgitchankvetadze1997@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Ethan Tidmore <ethantidmore06@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
ET