patch "staging: rtl8188eu: Fix module loading from tasklet for WEP" added to staging-linus

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 <[email protected]>
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.

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index dbb84e00077f..2f90f60f1681 100644
@@ -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) {

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