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

staging: rtl8188eu: Fix module loading from tasklet for CCMP

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.

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From: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 20:12:46 -0600 Subject: staging: rtl8188eu: Fix module loading from tasklet for CCMP encryption

Commit 6bd082af7e36 ("staging:r8188eu: use lib80211 CCMP decrypt") causes scheduling while atomic bugs followed by a hard freeze whenever the driver tries to connect to a CCMP-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: 6bd082af7e36 ("staging:r8188eu: use lib80211 CCMP decrypt") Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+ Reported-and-tested-by: 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 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c index 364d6ea14bf8..dbb84e00077f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c @@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ u32 rtw_aes_decrypt(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *precvframe) struct sk_buff *skb = ((struct recv_frame *)precvframe)->pkt; void *crypto_private = NULL; u8 *key, *pframe = skb->data; - struct lib80211_crypto_ops *crypto_ops = try_then_request_module(lib80211_get_crypto_ops("CCMP"), "lib80211_crypt_ccmp"); + struct lib80211_crypto_ops *crypto_ops = lib80211_get_crypto_ops("CCMP"); struct security_priv *psecuritypriv = &padapter->securitypriv; char iv[8], icv[8];