Compiles, but brings on Oops on load with 4.8-rc & 4.8 hwe-16.04

[Fjodor]

I shall leave it to more Makefile-knowledgeable people to edit the Makefile to make certain that compilation fails on wrong pointer types, but what I saw was kernel Oopses when booting 4.8-rc on 16.04, specifically referencing wl.

Having done some work on another wifi driver that was kind enough to spew compilation errors, it suddenly hit me that I might try these changes, and so far, it works for me on 4.8-rc8.

I don't know which kernel 16.10 is targeting, but consider this a heads-up, and apply at your will.

Best regards,

F

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephen Czetty (stephenczetty)]

Ran into this issue on yakkity, in broadcom-sta-dkms 7.30.223.271-3. Applying the above patch appears to have corrected the problem, and I have been running stably for 48 hours now.

[Stephen Czetty (stephenczetty)]

Correction, version is 6.30.223.271-3

[Achim Bohnet (allee)]

I'd NULL pointer bugs in wl_* routines in xenial + 4.8 hwe + broadcom-sta 6.30.223.271-3~16.04.1 from xenial proposed.

Applying the patch in #1 fixes them. I've now have wlan with hwe kernel in xenial!!