Re: [PATCH] lib80211: remove unused variables iv32 and iv16

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Jun 05 2023 - 08:00:06 EST


On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 08:33 -0400, Tom Rix wrote:
> clang with W=1 reports
> net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c:667:7: error: variable 'iv32'
> set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> u32 iv32 = tkey->tx_iv32;
> ^
> This variable not used so remove it.
> Then remove a similar iv16 variable.
> Remove the comment because the length is returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c b/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c
> index 1b4d6c87a5c5..9b411b6a7b5d 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c
> @@ -662,12 +662,6 @@ static int lib80211_tkip_get_key(void *key, int len, u8 * seq, void *priv)
> memcpy(key, tkey->key, TKIP_KEY_LEN);
>
> if (seq) {
> - /* Return the sequence number of the last transmitted frame. */
> - u16 iv16 = tkey->tx_iv16;
> - u32 iv32 = tkey->tx_iv32;
> - if (iv16 == 0)
> - iv32--;
> - iv16--;
>

FWIW, this has come up before, and we weren't sure that this really is
right and shouldn't have reported the iv32/iv16 values out to userspace
...

That said, it's unlikely anyone would ever go and test his code again,
so I guess we might as well clean this up to get rid of the warning.

Maybe leave a comment?

johannes