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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/ath, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-for-davem-2019-02-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers</title>
<updated>2019-02-04T17:12:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-04T17:12:06+00:00</published>
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers fixes for 5.0

First set of small, but importnat, fixes for 5.0.

iwlwifi

* fix a build regression introduced in 5.0-rc1

wlcore

* fix a firmware regression from v4.18-rc1

mt76x0

* fix for configuring tx power from user space

ath10k

* fix wcn3990 regression from v4.20-rc1
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers fixes for 5.0

First set of small, but importnat, fixes for 5.0.

iwlwifi

* fix a build regression introduced in 5.0-rc1

wlcore

* fix a firmware regression from v4.18-rc1

mt76x0

* fix for configuring tx power from user space

ath10k

* fix wcn3990 regression from v4.20-rc1
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ath10k: correct bus type for WCN3990</title>
<updated>2019-01-31T16:56:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Norris</name>
<email>briannorris@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-29T23:12:01+00:00</published>
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WCN3990 is SNOC, not PCI. This prevents probing WCN3990.

Fixes: 367c899f622c ("ath10k: add bus type check in ath10k_init_hw_params")
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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WCN3990 is SNOC, not PCI. This prevents probing WCN3990.

Fixes: 367c899f622c ("ath10k: add bus type check in ath10k_init_hw_params")
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cross-tree: phase out dma_zalloc_coherent()</title>
<updated>2019-01-08T12:58:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T08:23:09+00:00</published>
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We already need to zero out memory for dma_alloc_coherent(), as such
using dma_zalloc_coherent() is superflous. Phase it out.

This change was generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch:

@ replace_dma_zalloc_coherent @
expression dev, size, data, handle, flags;
@@

-dma_zalloc_coherent(dev, size, handle, flags)
+dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, handle, flags)

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
[hch: re-ran the script on the latest tree]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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We already need to zero out memory for dma_alloc_coherent(), as such
using dma_zalloc_coherent() is superflous. Phase it out.

This change was generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch:

@ replace_dma_zalloc_coherent @
expression dev, size, data, handle, flags;
@@

-dma_zalloc_coherent(dev, size, handle, flags)
+dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, handle, flags)

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
[hch: re-ran the script on the latest tree]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T21:19:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T21:19:59+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block/storage for 4.21.

  Larger than usual, it was a busy round with lots of goodies queued up.
  Most notable is the removal of the old IO stack, which has been a long
  time coming. No new features for a while, everything coming in this
  week has all been fixes for things that were previously merged.

  This contains:

   - Use atomic counters instead of semaphores for mtip32xx (Arnd)

   - Cleanup of the mtip32xx request setup (Christoph)

   - Fix for circular locking dependency in loop (Jan, Tetsuo)

   - bcache (Coly, Guoju, Shenghui)
      * Optimizations for writeback caching
      * Various fixes and improvements

   - nvme (Chaitanya, Christoph, Sagi, Jay, me, Keith)
      * host and target support for NVMe over TCP
      * Error log page support
      * Support for separate read/write/poll queues
      * Much improved polling
      * discard OOM fallback
      * Tracepoint improvements

   - lightnvm (Hans, Hua, Igor, Matias, Javier)
      * Igor added packed metadata to pblk. Now drives without metadata
        per LBA can be used as well.
      * Fix from Geert on uninitialized value on chunk metadata reads.
      * Fixes from Hans and Javier to pblk recovery and write path.
      * Fix from Hua Su to fix a race condition in the pblk recovery
        code.
      * Scan optimization added to pblk recovery from Zhoujie.
      * Small geometry cleanup from me.

   - Conversion of the last few drivers that used the legacy path to
     blk-mq (me)

   - Removal of legacy IO path in SCSI (me, Christoph)

   - Removal of legacy IO stack and schedulers (me)

   - Support for much better polling, now without interrupts at all.
     blk-mq adds support for multiple queue maps, which enables us to
     have a map per type. This in turn enables nvme to have separate
     completion queues for polling, which can then be interrupt-less.
     Also means we're ready for async polled IO, which is hopefully
     coming in the next release.

   - Killing of (now) unused block exports (Christoph)

   - Unification of the blk-rq-qos and blk-wbt wait handling (Josef)

   - Support for zoned testing with null_blk (Masato)

   - sx8 conversion to per-host tag sets (Christoph)

   - IO priority improvements (Damien)

   - mq-deadline zoned fix (Damien)

   - Ref count blkcg series (Dennis)

   - Lots of blk-mq improvements and speedups (me)

   - sbitmap scalability improvements (me)

   - Make core inflight IO accounting per-cpu (Mikulas)

   - Export timeout setting in sysfs (Weiping)

   - Cleanup the direct issue path (Jianchao)

   - Export blk-wbt internals in block debugfs for easier debugging
     (Ming)

   - Lots of other fixes and improvements"

* tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (364 commits)
  kyber: use sbitmap add_wait_queue/list_del wait helpers
  sbitmap: add helpers for add/del wait queue handling
  block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create()
  dm: don't reuse bio for flushes
  nvme-pci: trace SQ status on completions
  nvme-rdma: implement polling queue map
  nvme-fabrics: allow user to pass in nr_poll_queues
  nvme-fabrics: allow nvmf_connect_io_queue to poll
  nvme-core: optionally poll sync commands
  block: make request_to_qc_t public
  nvme-tcp: fix spelling mistake "attepmpt" -&gt; "attempt"
  nvme-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvmet-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvme-pci: refactor nvme_poll_irqdisable to make sparse happy
  nvme-pci: only set nr_maps to 2 if poll queues are supported
  nvmet: use a macro for default error location
  nvmet: fix comparison of a u16 with -1
  blk-mq: enable IO poll if .nr_queues of type poll &gt; 0
  blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight()
  blk-mq: skip zero-queue maps in blk_mq_map_swqueue
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block/storage for 4.21.

  Larger than usual, it was a busy round with lots of goodies queued up.
  Most notable is the removal of the old IO stack, which has been a long
  time coming. No new features for a while, everything coming in this
  week has all been fixes for things that were previously merged.

  This contains:

   - Use atomic counters instead of semaphores for mtip32xx (Arnd)

   - Cleanup of the mtip32xx request setup (Christoph)

   - Fix for circular locking dependency in loop (Jan, Tetsuo)

   - bcache (Coly, Guoju, Shenghui)
      * Optimizations for writeback caching
      * Various fixes and improvements

   - nvme (Chaitanya, Christoph, Sagi, Jay, me, Keith)
      * host and target support for NVMe over TCP
      * Error log page support
      * Support for separate read/write/poll queues
      * Much improved polling
      * discard OOM fallback
      * Tracepoint improvements

   - lightnvm (Hans, Hua, Igor, Matias, Javier)
      * Igor added packed metadata to pblk. Now drives without metadata
        per LBA can be used as well.
      * Fix from Geert on uninitialized value on chunk metadata reads.
      * Fixes from Hans and Javier to pblk recovery and write path.
      * Fix from Hua Su to fix a race condition in the pblk recovery
        code.
      * Scan optimization added to pblk recovery from Zhoujie.
      * Small geometry cleanup from me.

   - Conversion of the last few drivers that used the legacy path to
     blk-mq (me)

   - Removal of legacy IO path in SCSI (me, Christoph)

   - Removal of legacy IO stack and schedulers (me)

   - Support for much better polling, now without interrupts at all.
     blk-mq adds support for multiple queue maps, which enables us to
     have a map per type. This in turn enables nvme to have separate
     completion queues for polling, which can then be interrupt-less.
     Also means we're ready for async polled IO, which is hopefully
     coming in the next release.

   - Killing of (now) unused block exports (Christoph)

   - Unification of the blk-rq-qos and blk-wbt wait handling (Josef)

   - Support for zoned testing with null_blk (Masato)

   - sx8 conversion to per-host tag sets (Christoph)

   - IO priority improvements (Damien)

   - mq-deadline zoned fix (Damien)

   - Ref count blkcg series (Dennis)

   - Lots of blk-mq improvements and speedups (me)

   - sbitmap scalability improvements (me)

   - Make core inflight IO accounting per-cpu (Mikulas)

   - Export timeout setting in sysfs (Weiping)

   - Cleanup the direct issue path (Jianchao)

   - Export blk-wbt internals in block debugfs for easier debugging
     (Ming)

   - Lots of other fixes and improvements"

* tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (364 commits)
  kyber: use sbitmap add_wait_queue/list_del wait helpers
  sbitmap: add helpers for add/del wait queue handling
  block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create()
  dm: don't reuse bio for flushes
  nvme-pci: trace SQ status on completions
  nvme-rdma: implement polling queue map
  nvme-fabrics: allow user to pass in nr_poll_queues
  nvme-fabrics: allow nvmf_connect_io_queue to poll
  nvme-core: optionally poll sync commands
  block: make request_to_qc_t public
  nvme-tcp: fix spelling mistake "attepmpt" -&gt; "attempt"
  nvme-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvmet-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvme-pci: refactor nvme_poll_irqdisable to make sparse happy
  nvme-pci: only set nr_maps to 2 if poll queues are supported
  nvmet: use a macro for default error location
  nvmet: fix comparison of a u16 with -1
  blk-mq: enable IO poll if .nr_queues of type poll &gt; 0
  blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight()
  blk-mq: skip zero-queue maps in blk_mq_map_swqueue
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2018-12-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T00:47:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-21T00:47:10+00:00</published>
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.21

Last set of patches for 4.21. mt76 is still in very active development
and having some refactoring as well as new features. But also other
drivers got few new features and fixes.

Major changes:

ath10k

* add amsdu support for QCA6174 monitor mode

* report tx rate using the new ieee80211_tx_rate_update() API

* wcn3990 support is not experimental anymore

iwlwifi

* support for FW version 43 for 9000 and 22000 series

brcmfmac

* add support for CYW43012 SDIO chipset

* add the raw 4354 PCIe device ID for unprogrammed Cypress boards

mwifiex

* add NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BITRATE support

mt76

* use the same firmware for mt76x2e and mt76x2u

* mt76x0e survey support

* more unification between mt76x2 and mt76x0

* mt76x0e AP mode support

* mt76x0e DFS support

* rework and fix tx status handling for mt76x0 and mt76x2
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.21

Last set of patches for 4.21. mt76 is still in very active development
and having some refactoring as well as new features. But also other
drivers got few new features and fixes.

Major changes:

ath10k

* add amsdu support for QCA6174 monitor mode

* report tx rate using the new ieee80211_tx_rate_update() API

* wcn3990 support is not experimental anymore

iwlwifi

* support for FW version 43 for 9000 and 22000 series

brcmfmac

* add support for CYW43012 SDIO chipset

* add the raw 4354 PCIe device ID for unprogrammed Cypress boards

mwifiex

* add NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BITRATE support

mt76

* use the same firmware for mt76x2e and mt76x2u

* mt76x0e survey support

* more unification between mt76x2 and mt76x0

* mt76x0e AP mode support

* mt76x0e DFS support

* rework and fix tx status handling for mt76x0 and mt76x2
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T19:53:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T18:53:28+00:00</published>
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Lots of conflicts, by happily all cases of overlapping
changes, parallel adds, things of that nature.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell, Saeed Mahameed, and others
for their guidance in these resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lots of conflicts, by happily all cases of overlapping
changes, parallel adds, things of that nature.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell, Saeed Mahameed, and others
for their guidance in these resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ath10k: add support to configure BB timing over wmi</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T17:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bhagavathi Perumal S</name>
<email>bperumal@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T12:26:00+00:00</published>
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Add wmi configuration cmd to configure base band(BB) power amplifier(PA)
off timing values in hardware. The default PA off timings were fine tuned
to make proper DFS radar detection in QCA reference design. If ODM uses
different PA in their design, then the same default PA off timing values
cannot be used, it requires different settling time to detect radar pulses
very sooner and avoid radar detection problems. In that case it provides
provision to select proper PA off timing values based on the PA hardware used.
The PA component is part of FEM hardware and new device tree entry
"ext-fem-name" is used to indentify the FEM hardware. And this wmi configuration
cmd is enabled via wmi service flag "WMI_SERVICE_BB_TIMING_CONFIG_SUPPORT".

Other way is to apply these values through calibration data, but recalibration
of all boards out there might not be feasible.

This change tested on firmware ver 10.2.4-1.0-00042 in QCA988X chipset.

Signed-off-by: Bhagavathi Perumal S &lt;bperumal@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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Add wmi configuration cmd to configure base band(BB) power amplifier(PA)
off timing values in hardware. The default PA off timings were fine tuned
to make proper DFS radar detection in QCA reference design. If ODM uses
different PA in their design, then the same default PA off timing values
cannot be used, it requires different settling time to detect radar pulses
very sooner and avoid radar detection problems. In that case it provides
provision to select proper PA off timing values based on the PA hardware used.
The PA component is part of FEM hardware and new device tree entry
"ext-fem-name" is used to indentify the FEM hardware. And this wmi configuration
cmd is enabled via wmi service flag "WMI_SERVICE_BB_TIMING_CONFIG_SUPPORT".

Other way is to apply these values through calibration data, but recalibration
of all boards out there might not be feasible.

This change tested on firmware ver 10.2.4-1.0-00042 in QCA988X chipset.

Signed-off-by: Bhagavathi Perumal S &lt;bperumal@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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<title>ath10k: fix tx_stats memory leak</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T17:08:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhi Chen</name>
<email>zhichen@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T12:25:18+00:00</published>
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Memory of tx_stats was allocated when a STA was added. But it's not freed
if the STA failed to be added to driver. This issue could be seen in MDK3
attack case when STA number reached the limit.

Tested: QCA9984 with firmware ver 10.4-3.9.0.1-00005
Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen &lt;zhichen@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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Memory of tx_stats was allocated when a STA was added. But it's not freed
if the STA failed to be added to driver. This issue could be seen in MDK3
attack case when STA number reached the limit.

Tested: QCA9984 with firmware ver 10.4-3.9.0.1-00005
Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen &lt;zhichen@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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<title>ath10k: fix peer stats null pointer dereference</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T17:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhi Chen</name>
<email>zhichen@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T12:24:43+00:00</published>
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There was a race condition in SMP that an ath10k_peer was created but its
member sta was null. Following are procedures of ath10k_peer creation and
member sta access in peer statistics path.

    1. Peer creation:
        ath10k_peer_create()
            =&gt;ath10k_wmi_peer_create()
                =&gt;ath10k_wait_for_peer_created()
                ...

        # another kernel path, RX from firmware
        ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler()
        =&gt;ath10k_peer_map_event()
                =&gt;wake_up()
                # ar-&gt;peer_map[id] = peer //add peer to map

        #wake up original path from waiting
                ...
                # peer-&gt;sta = sta //sta assignment

    2.  RX path of statistics
        ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler()
            =&gt;ath10k_update_per_peer_tx_stats()
                =&gt;ath10k_htt_fetch_peer_stats()
                # peer-&gt;sta //sta accessing

Any access of peer-&gt;sta after peer was added to peer_map but before sta was
assigned could cause a null pointer issue. And because these two steps are
asynchronous, no proper lock can protect them. So both peer and sta need to
be checked before access.

Tested: QCA9984 with firmware ver 10.4-3.9.0.1-00005
Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen &lt;zhichen@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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There was a race condition in SMP that an ath10k_peer was created but its
member sta was null. Following are procedures of ath10k_peer creation and
member sta access in peer statistics path.

    1. Peer creation:
        ath10k_peer_create()
            =&gt;ath10k_wmi_peer_create()
                =&gt;ath10k_wait_for_peer_created()
                ...

        # another kernel path, RX from firmware
        ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler()
        =&gt;ath10k_peer_map_event()
                =&gt;wake_up()
                # ar-&gt;peer_map[id] = peer //add peer to map

        #wake up original path from waiting
                ...
                # peer-&gt;sta = sta //sta assignment

    2.  RX path of statistics
        ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler()
            =&gt;ath10k_update_per_peer_tx_stats()
                =&gt;ath10k_htt_fetch_peer_stats()
                # peer-&gt;sta //sta accessing

Any access of peer-&gt;sta after peer was added to peer_map but before sta was
assigned could cause a null pointer issue. And because these two steps are
asynchronous, no proper lock can protect them. So both peer and sta need to
be checked before access.

Tested: QCA9984 with firmware ver 10.4-3.9.0.1-00005
Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen &lt;zhichen@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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<title>ath10k: remove an unnecessary NULL check</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T17:06:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2018-12-20T07:53:45+00:00</published>
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The "survey" pointer is the address of an array element.  We know that
it can't be NULL so this check can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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The "survey" pointer is the address of an array element.  We know that
it can't be NULL so this check can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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