This reverts commit 99aded71b52c ("Staging: drivers: rtl8188eu: use sizeof(*ptr) instead of sizeof(struct)").
This commit is wrong, as adapt->HalData has a type of "void *", so now we are allocating a much to small struct, which causes the driver to overwrite random memory which leads to a non working driver and various system crashes. Cc: Jacky Boen <aqi...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c index 87ea3b8..363f3a3 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c @@ -2072,7 +2072,8 @@ void rtl8188eu_set_hal_ops(struct adapter *adapt) { struct hal_ops *halfunc = &adapt->HalFunc; - adapt->HalData = kzalloc(sizeof(*adapt->HalData), GFP_KERNEL); + + adapt->HalData = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hal_data_8188e), GFP_KERNEL); if (!adapt->HalData) DBG_88E("cant not alloc memory for HAL DATA\n"); -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel