4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 7775665aadc48a562051834a73519129bf717d73 upstream. 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. Fixes: 2b2ea09e74a5 ("staging:r8188eu: Use lib80211 to decrypt WEP-frames") Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.17+ Cc: Michael Straube <straube.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ void rtw_wep_encrypt(struct adapter *pad 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 *pad 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) {