This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: rtl8188eu: Fix module loading from tasklet for WEP

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 7775665aadc48a562051834a73519129bf717d73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 20:12:47 -0600 Subject: staging: rtl8188eu: Fix module loading from tasklet for WEP encryption

Commit 2b2ea09e74a5 ("staging:r8188eu: Use lib80211 to decrypt WEP-frames") causes scheduling while atomic bugs followed by a hard freeze whenever the driver tries to connect to a WEP-encrypted network. Experimentation showed that the freezes were eliminated when module lib80211 was preloaded, which can be forced by calling lib80211_get_crypto_ops() directly rather than indirectly through try_then_request_module(). With this change, no BUG messages are logged.

Fixes: 2b2ea09e74a5 ("staging:r8188eu: Use lib80211 to decrypt WEP-frames") Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+ Cc: Michael Straube straube.linux@gmail.com Cc: Ivan Safonov insafonov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c index dbb84e00077f..2f90f60f1681 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ void rtw_wep_encrypt(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *pxmitframe)

pframe = ((struct xmit_frame *)pxmitframe)->buf_addr + hw_hdr_offset;

- crypto_ops = try_then_request_module(lib80211_get_crypto_ops("WEP"), "lib80211_crypt_wep"); + crypto_ops = lib80211_get_crypto_ops("WEP");

if (!crypto_ops) return; @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ int rtw_wep_decrypt(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *precvframe) void *crypto_private = NULL; int status = _SUCCESS; const int keyindex = prxattrib->key_index; - struct lib80211_crypto_ops *crypto_ops = try_then_request_module(lib80211_get_crypto_ops("WEP"), "lib80211_crypt_wep"); + struct lib80211_crypto_ops *crypto_ops = lib80211_get_crypto_ops("WEP"); char iv[4], icv[4];

if (!crypto_ops) {