[PATCH v4] staging: rtl8723bs: remove redundant rsp_allocated_buf

From: Devansh Soni

Date: Wed Jun 17 2026 - 08:39:24 EST


The original code allocated extra memory and manually aligned the
rsp_buf pointer to a 4-byte boundary, however kzalloc() guarantees a
minimum of 8-byte alignment so this was unnecessary.

Also, because the pointer was shifted, the original pointer had to be
stored in rsp_allocated_buf just so it could be passed to kfree() later.

Remove the redundant alignment math, remove the extra 4 bytes of padding
from kzalloc() call, and assign memory directly to rsp_buf.

This allows us to remove the rsp_allocated_buf variable from cmd_priv
struct.

Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Devansh Soni <devanshsoni874@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v4:
- Dropped PTR_ALIGN() entirely as kzalloc() 8-byte alignment is sufficient.
- Removed the +4 byte padding from kzalloc().
- Completely removed the rsp_allocated_buf tracking variable and updated kfree().

Changes in v3:
- Replaced manual bitwise math with PTR_ALIGN() macro based on feedback from v1.
- Updated commit message to detail kzalloc() 8-byte alignment guarantees.

Changes in v2:
- Wrapped commit log text to resolve line length issue noted by Greg.

drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c | 9 +++------
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_cmd.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c
index b932670f5..fd1ba1b4e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c
@@ -178,15 +178,12 @@ int rtw_init_cmd_priv(struct cmd_priv *pcmdpriv)

pcmdpriv->cmd_buf = PTR_ALIGN(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf, CMDBUFF_ALIGN_SZ);

- pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf = kzalloc(MAX_RSPSZ + 4, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf) {
+ pcmdpriv->rsp_buf = kzalloc(MAX_RSPSZ, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!pcmdpriv->rsp_buf) {
kfree(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf);
return -ENOMEM;
}

- pcmdpriv->rsp_buf = pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf + 4 -
- ((SIZE_PTR)(pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf) & 3);
-
pcmdpriv->cmd_issued_cnt = 0;
pcmdpriv->cmd_done_cnt = 0;
pcmdpriv->rsp_cnt = 0;
@@ -232,7 +229,7 @@ void _rtw_free_cmd_priv(struct cmd_priv *pcmdpriv)
if (pcmdpriv) {
kfree(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf);

- kfree(pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf);
+ kfree(pcmdpriv->rsp_buf);

mutex_destroy(&pcmdpriv->sctx_mutex);
}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_cmd.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_cmd.h
index f78aa0d7a..66b970955 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_cmd.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_cmd.h
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
u8 *cmd_buf; /* shall be non-paged, and 4 bytes aligned */
u8 *cmd_allocated_buf;
u8 *rsp_buf; /* shall be non-paged, and 4 bytes aligned */
- u8 *rsp_allocated_buf;
u32 cmd_issued_cnt;
u32 cmd_done_cnt;
u32 rsp_cnt;
--
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