Re: kernel BUG in new r8188eu

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-02T10:36:26Z

On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 03:15:52PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 8/1/21 1:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > I am worried that my "remove the wrapper" logic got something wrong
> > here, so if you could test the revert of that, I would appreciate it.
> >
> > I think I need to go buy one of these devices so I can test cleanups
> > locally...
>
> The bad commit was 9ff1cc4ef80e ("staging: r8188eu: remove rtw_buf_free()
> function").
>
> Looking at it, the only difference between the original wrapper and the new
> code is that the wrapper zeros the len variable before the kfree() call, but
> making that change did not help. Reverting that patch restores the old
> behavior.

Ah, doh, that was my fault, sorry, that patch was incorrect (odd git id,
don't know where that came from, it's a different id in my tree.) Let
me revert this commit and then will redo it correctly.

thanks for finding this.

> There are lots of these on Ebay from $2.47 up with free shipping!

Any hints on the name for how to figure out which devices are supported
by this driver?

thanks,

greg k-h