linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] staging: r8188eu: driver stopped working with commit ("staging: r8188eu: add check for kzalloc")

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Date:   Wed, 8 Jun 2022 11:27:31 +0200
From:   Martin Kaiser <lists@...ser.cx>
To:     Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>, phil@...lpotter.co.uk
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] staging: r8188eu: driver stopped working with commit
 ("staging: r8188eu: add check for kzalloc")

Hi Michael & Phil,

Thus wrote Michael Straube (straube.linux@...il.com):

> The driver does not work anymore on my system. In dmesg there is:

> "r8188eu 1-4:1.0: _rtw_init_xmit_priv failed"

> I bisected it to commit f94b47c6bde ("staging: r8188eu: add check for
> kzalloc").

> ~/kernels/staging> git bisect bad
> f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95 is the first bad commit

> At the moment I have no time to look further into it.

See also

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/YoyU4zXf45UpF1Tq@kroah.com/T/#mb5e56a285b8eb1ebb0e798462fc388cb02b4a7cc

Phil said in

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/YoyU4zXf45UpF1Tq@kroah.com/T/#m7a21d460b2569f6b59965ecc3298a6337fa3458a

that he has submitted a patch to fix this issue for now until we
get around to changing the _SUCCESS and _FAIL values.

Phil, did you really send this out? I don't see it.
If you don't have anything ready, I can try a simple fix.

Thanks & best regards,

   Martin