Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: ax88179_178a: Add support for writing the EEPROM

From: Oliver Neukum <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:16:36 +0200

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 16:40 +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:30:39 +0200
> Oliver Neukum <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 15:52 +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:

> > > +       if (block != data)
> > > +               kfree(block);  
> > 
> > And if block == dta, what frees the memory?
> 
> In this case this function didn't allocate any memory, so there is
> nothing to free.

Hi,

I see. kfree() has a check for NULL, so you could drop the
test, but it doesn't matter much either way.

	Regards
		Oliver