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rtlwifi: rtl_usb: Fix missing entry in USB driver's private data

Message ID 20161221171855.5056-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 60f59ce0278557f7896d5158ae6d12a4855a72cc
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Commit Message

Larry Finger Dec. 21, 2016, 5:18 p.m. UTC
These drivers need to be able to reference "struct ieee80211_hw" from
the driver's private data, and vice versa. The USB driver failed to
store the address of ieee80211_hw in the private data. Although this
bug has been present for a long time, it was not exposed until
commit ba9f93f82aba ("rtlwifi: Fix enter/exit power_save").

Fixes: ba9f93f82aba ("rtlwifi: Fix enter/exit power_save")
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Kalle,

This patch needs to be included in 4.10.

Larry
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 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Kalle Valo Dec. 30, 2016, 1:39 p.m. UTC | #1
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> These drivers need to be able to reference "struct ieee80211_hw" from
> the driver's private data, and vice versa. The USB driver failed to
> store the address of ieee80211_hw in the private data. Although this
> bug has been present for a long time, it was not exposed until
> commit ba9f93f82aba ("rtlwifi: Fix enter/exit power_save").
> 
> Fixes: ba9f93f82aba ("rtlwifi: Fix enter/exit power_save")
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.

60f59ce02785 rtlwifi: rtl_usb: Fix missing entry in USB driver's private data
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
index 40160c7..bf00399 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@  int rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	rtlpriv = hw->priv;
+	rtlpriv->hw = hw;
 	rtlpriv->usb_data = kzalloc(RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT * sizeof(u32),
 				    GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rtlpriv->usb_data)