r8125 FTBFS with linux-hwe-6.8

[Paolo Pisati]

[Impact]

...
/home/ubuntu/dkms/r8125/r8125-9.007.01/src/r8125_n.c: In function ‘rtl8125_get_drvinfo’:
/home/ubuntu/dkms/r8125/r8125-9.007.01/src/r8125_n.c:4441:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘strlcpy’; did you mean ‘strscpy’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 4441 | strlcpy(info->fw_version, rtl_fw->version,
      | ^~~~~~~
...

[Fix]

Apply the attached fix.

[How to test]

Install, rebuild and load the fixed package with GA and HWE kernels.

[Regression potential]

None, the fix replaces an occurrence of the deprecated strlcpy() with strscpy().

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Hello Paolo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted r8125 into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r8125/9.007.01-3ubuntu0.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Paolo Pisati (p-pisati)]

$ dkms status | grep r8
r8125/9.007.01, 5.15.0-118-generic, x86_64: installed
r8125/9.007.01, 6.8.0-40-generic, x86_64: installed

GA:
$ lsmod | grep r8
r8125 217088 0

HWE:
$ lsmod | grep r8
r8125 245760 0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package r8125 - 9.007.01-3ubuntu0.3

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r8125 (9.007.01-3ubuntu0.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Fix FTBFS with linux-hwe-6.8 (LP: #2073479)

 -- Paolo Pisati <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:18:43 +0000

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for r8125 has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.