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authorKoen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>2016-12-14 17:28:59 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-12-15 10:56:52 +0100
commit0c2e384267b815fb784c415a90de7bdd78da0b66 (patch)
treef4468fed30a691043ed6f3422a325e6e2e1426b6 /net/mac80211
parent445cd452fe5187e676eef02c917c9e5f837c749e (diff)
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mac80211: only alloc mem if a station doesn't exist yet
This speeds up the function in case a station already exists by avoiding calling an expensive kzalloc just to free it again after the next check. Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/sta_info.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 4ab75a9d70c7..f5a24b742eda 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -513,23 +513,23 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = sta->local;
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;
- struct station_info *sinfo;
+ struct station_info *sinfo = NULL;
int err = 0;
lockdep_assert_held(&local->sta_mtx);
- sinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct station_info), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!sinfo) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_err;
- }
-
/* check if STA exists already */
if (sta_info_get_bss(sdata, sta->sta.addr)) {
err = -EEXIST;
goto out_err;
}
+ sinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct station_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!sinfo) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+
local->num_sta++;
local->sta_generation++;
smp_mb();