[PATCH][next] staging: wfx: check for memory allocation failures from wfx_alloc_hif

From: Colin Ian King Currently calls to wfx_alloc_hif are not checking for a null return when a memory allocation fails and this leads to null pointer dereferencing issues. Fix this by adding null pointer checks and returning passing down -ENOMEM errors where necessary. The error checking in

[PATCH 5/5] staging: vt6656: set usb_set_intfdata on driver fail.

intfdata will contain stale pointer when the device is detached after failed initialization when referenced in vt6656_disconnect Provide driver access to it here and NULL it. Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley --- drivers/staging/vt6656/device.h | 1 +

[PATCH 4/5] staging: vt6656: remove bool from vnt_radio_power_on ret

The driver uses logical only error checking a bool true would flag error. Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley --- drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c index

[PATCH 3/5] staging: vt6656: limit reg output to block size

vnt_control_out appears to fail when BBREG is greater than 64 writes. Create new function that will relay an array in no larger than the indicated block size. It appears that this command has always failed but was ignored by driver until the introduction of error checking. Cc: stable # v5.3+

[PATCH 2/5] staging: vt6656: correct return of vnt_init_registers.

The driver standard error returns remove bool false conditions. Cc: stable # v5.3+ Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley --- drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c

[PATCH 1/5] staging: vt6656: Fix non zero logical return of, usb_control_msg

Starting with commit 59608cb1de1856 ("staging: vt6656: clean function's error path in usbpipe.c") the usb control functions have returned errors throughout driver with only logical variable checking. However, usb_control_msg return the amount of bytes transferred this means that normal operation

Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver fixes for 5.5-rc3

The pull request you sent on Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:08:08 +0100: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git > tags/staging-5.5-rc3 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/107aff96d36fc4bf2a9ad69bc2524e9f53bde7a6 Thank you! --

[PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: use break to exit while loop

The variable bContinual in Efuse_PgPacketRead() is only used to break out of a while loop. Remove the variable and use break instead. Signed-off-by: Michael Straube --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_efuse.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 35/52] staging/wlan-ng: add CRC32 dependency in Kconfig

From: Kay Friedrich [ Upstream commit 2740bd3351cd5a4351f458aabaa1c9b77de3867b ] wlan-ng uses the function crc32_le, but CRC32 wasn't a dependency of wlan-ng Co-developed-by: Michael Kupfer Signed-off-by: Michael Kupfer Signed-off-by: Kay Friedrich Link: