Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver fixes for 4.12-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 06:00:24PM +1000, Ian W MORRISON wrote:
> The kernel when booted with Ubuntu 17.04 results in an unusable system
> however with the following patch booting is successful and the system
> is usable. The patch and kernel builds have been tested against on an
> Intel Compute Stick (STCK1A32WFC model).

It's in my queue to get to after 4.12-rc1 is out, it's not lost.

> From: Ian W Morrison <linuxium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 02:20:38 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove a call to kfree in
>  os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian W Morrison <linuxium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> index f17f4fb..2ee9df5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
> @@ -3527,7 +3527,6 @@ int rtw_wdev_alloc(struct adapter *padapter,
> struct device *dev)
>                 pwdev_priv->power_mgmt = true;
>         else
>                 pwdev_priv->power_mgmt = false;
> -       kfree((u8 *)wdev);
> 
>         return ret;
> 

The patch is whitespace dammaged and can not be applied :(

thanks,

greg k-h