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Revert "Staging: drivers: rtl8188eu: use sizeof(*ptr) instead of sizeof(struct)"

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This reverts commit 99aded71b5 ("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 <aqiank@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Hans de Goede 2016-06-05 21:01:18 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent a9cc400615
commit 6982f867e0
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drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c
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@ -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");