Re: b43 crashes on rmmod (bcm4331)

["Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>]

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On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:47:19 +0300
Wirz <spam-rxbgZ4vWfLhdz0/ABlLGQA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> >>>> You can edit drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/Kconfig
> >>>> go to the section config B43_HWRNG
> >>>> and change 'default y' to 'default n'
> >>>>
> >>>> That should disable it.    
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Could you please also try the attached patch?
> >>> There seems to be a problem in hwrng core in that it does not disable
> >>> the current RNG, if the new RNG fails to initialize.
> >>> I don't know if that's the problem here, though.    
> >>
> >> Ok. Do I apply your patch to the first version that fails for me, and
> >> revert my change to Kconfig?  
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, please test the patch with a version that would otherwise fail.
> > You can use 4.16 or the latest kernel for that. I created it with latest
> > linus' version.  
> 
> I tested both suggested cases.  When I disable B43_HWRNG by editing
> Kconfig, 'rmmod b43' succeeds in the first version where it previously
> failed.  When I apply your patch on top of an unmodified 4.16 it also
> succeeds.


Thank you _very_ much for testing.

I will submit this patch to the hw_random maintainers.

-- 
Michael

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