The patch is wrong and is partially reverted.
The NULL check of pTransmitKey->pvKeyTable is kept.
The problem was ultimately fixed by upstream commit.
1ee4c55fc9620451b2a825d793042a7e0775391b
staging: vt6656: Fix inconsistent structure packing
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.8
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
        pvRrvTime = pMICHDR = pvRTS = pvCTS = pvTxDataHd = NULL;
 
        if (bNeedEncryption && pTransmitKey->pvKeyTable) {
-               if (((PSKeyTable)&pTransmitKey->pvKeyTable)->bSoftWEP == TRUE)
+               if (((PSKeyTable)pTransmitKey->pvKeyTable)->bSoftWEP == TRUE)
                        bSoftWEP = TRUE; /* WEP 256 */
        }