Hi, Greg, Larry and Phillip! I noticed, that new staging driver was added like 3 weeks ago and I decided to look at the code, because drivers in staging directory are always buggy. The first thing I noticed is *no one* was checking read operations result, but it can fail and driver may start writing random stack values into registers. It can cause driver misbehavior or device misbehavior. To avoid this type of bugs, i've changed rtw_read* API. Now all rtw_read funtions return an error, when something went wrong with usb transfer. It helps callers to break/return earlier and don't write random values to registers or to rely on random values. v2 -> v3: 1. Fixed OOPS in usb_read32(), caused by writing to u32 ** 2. Fixed style in rtw_read32, rtw_read16 and rtw_read8 (Suggested by Dan) 3. Added error hanling when usb_control_msg() returns ret != len NOTE: Dan suggested to add this to usbctrl_vendorreq(), but there is pending series, which will get rid of usb_control_msg(), so (res != len) check can be removed, when Fabio's series will go in 4. Removed RFC tag v1 -> v2: 1. Make rtw_read*() return an error instead of initializing pointer to error 2. Split one huge patch to smaller ones for each rtw_read{8,16,32} function changes 3. Add new macro for printing register values (It helps to not copy-paste error handling) 4. Removed {read,write}_macreg (Suggested by Phillip) 5. Rebased on top of staging-next 6. Cleaned checkpatch errors and warnings Phillip has tested fixed v2 version, AFAIU Pavel Skripkin (6): staging: r8188eu: remove {read,write}_macreg staging: r8188eu: add helper macro for printing registers staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read8 staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read16 staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read32 staging: r8188eu: make ReadEFuse return an int drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_debug.c | 79 +++- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_efuse.c | 125 +++-- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_io.c | 27 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mp.c | 70 ++- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mp_ioctl.c | 13 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c | 5 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sreset.c | 9 +- .../r8188eu/hal/Hal8188ERateAdaptive.c | 8 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/HalPhyRf_8188e.c | 21 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/HalPwrSeqCmd.c | 9 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/hal_com.c | 23 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/hal_intf.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/odm_interface.c | 12 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_cmd.c | 33 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_dm.c | 6 +- .../staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_hal_init.c | 285 +++++++++--- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_phycfg.c | 27 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_sreset.c | 22 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_led.c | 18 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c | 439 +++++++++++++++--- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_ops_linux.c | 62 ++- drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/hal_intf.h | 6 +- .../staging/r8188eu/include/odm_interface.h | 6 +- .../staging/r8188eu/include/rtl8188e_hal.h | 2 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_debug.h | 13 + drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_efuse.h | 4 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_io.h | 18 +- drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mp.h | 2 - drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 179 +++++-- drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 3 +- 30 files changed, 1143 insertions(+), 389 deletions(-) -- 2.32.0