[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: use !psta instead of comparison to NULL

From: Arnesh Banerjee

Date: Sun Jul 26 2026 - 19:21:35 EST


The psta pointer was compared against NULL using an explicit equality
check. The kernel coding style prefers testing a pointer directly, so
use !psta instead. This also silences a checkpatch CHECK:

CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!psta"

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Arnesh Banerjee <linkrinku13@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
index a443b3530..5a45092f9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
@@ -4915,7 +4915,7 @@ void linked_status_chk(struct adapter *padapter)
if (pmlmeinfo->FW_sta_info[i].status == 1) {
psta = pmlmeinfo->FW_sta_info[i].psta;

- if (psta == NULL)
+ if (!psta)
continue;

if (pmlmeinfo->FW_sta_info[i].rx_pkt == sta_rx_pkts(psta)) {
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)