Re: Fix hostap_cs double kfree

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<quote sender="Felipe W Damasio">
> Eugene Teo wrote:
> 
> >  failed:
> >-	kfree(parse);
> >-	kfree(hw_priv);
> >+	if (parse)
> >+		kfree(parse);
> >+	if (hw_priv)
> >+		kfree(hw_priv);
>
>     I don't think those if's are needed, since the kfree code already does:
> 
> void kfree(const void *objp)
> {
>         if (unlikely(!objp))
>                 return;
> ...
> }
> 
>     But if you really want to use it, I suggest using if (likely
> (!<pointer>)) there to hint gcc of a possible optimization.

Ah, thanks for the tip.

Eugene
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