From 6982f867e058f0c6c8d3eeb4ef305efd7d7f4c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans de Goede Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 21:01:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Staging: drivers: rtl8188eu: use sizeof(*ptr) instead of sizeof(struct)" 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 Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 87ea3b844951..363f3a34ddce 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"); -- GitLab