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

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:34:45PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On 6/8/22 12:27, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> > Hi Michael & Phil,
> > 
> > Thus wrote Michael Straube (straube.linux@gmail.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
> > 
> 
> There is the posted patch [1]. I also have to apply it every time I want to
> test smth.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220521204741.921-1-phil@philpotter.co.uk/

That patch is in linux-next and will be sent to Linus later this week.

thanks,

greg k-h