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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: Remove rtw_mfree_all_stainfo()
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On 8/4/21 10:09 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> In other Realtek drivers, the while loop has a call to rtw_mfree_stainfo(psta). 
> That routine does not exist in this driver, but I think it should. In a few rare 
> instances, the driver leaks some memory - this missing code may explain that. In 
> any case, this patch should be dropped as the fix will require testing.

After looking at the original code for several other drivers, routine 
rtw_mfree_stainfo() just ends up calling a couple of routines that free a 
spinlock. That operation for Windows and FreeBSD is not trivial, but for Linux, 
the routine does nothing. Thus, despite its name, rtw_mfree_stainfo() does not 
free anything, and it can be deleted.

The original patch is

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

Larry