When this driver was upgraded to the vendor 20100831 version in commit 93c55dda092c7 et al,, one listhead initialization was missed. This broke complete operation of the driver whenever AP mode was enabled. This patch fixes https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27996. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Cc: Stable --- Index: linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2.orig/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c +++ linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static void _init_stainfo(struct sta_inf _r8712_init_sta_xmit_priv(&psta->sta_xmitpriv); _r8712_init_sta_recv_priv(&psta->sta_recvpriv); #ifdef CONFIG_R8712_AP + _init_listhead(&psta->asoc_list); _init_listhead(&psta->auth_list); #endif }