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    staging: rtl8188eu: Fix module loading from tasklet for WEP encryption · 7775665a
    Larry Finger authored
    Commit 2b2ea09e ("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: 2b2ea09e
    
     ("staging:r8188eu: Use lib80211 to decrypt WEP-frames")
    Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.17+
    Cc: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    7775665a