System crashes on 5.15.2-76051502 with Realtek USB-WLAN Adaptaer

[nielsk]

How did you upgrade to 21.10? (Fresh install / Upgrade)
Upgraded from 21.04

Issue/Bug Description:
I have a USB-WLAN adapter listed in lsusb as:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter

When it is connected, the system will crash a short moment after booting. It takes a bit longer when I do not log into gnome directly but switch to a tty. This happen son 5.15, on 5.13 the system is stable.

The following modules get loaded on 5.13 for the adapter:

lsmod|grep rtl
rtl8xxxu              139264  0
rtl8192cu              81920  0
rtl_usb                20480  1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common        65536  1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi                94208  3 rtl8192c_common,rtl_usb,rtl8192cu
mac80211             1024000  4 rtl_usb,rtl8192cu,rtlwifi,rtl8xxxu
cfg80211              897024  3 rtlwifi,mac80211,rtl8xxxu

Information from lshw:

 description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       bus info: usb@1:1.2
       logical name: wlx0013ef40018f
       serial: 00:13:ef:40:01:8f
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192cu driverversion=5.13.0-7620-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.0.1.70 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

[jacobgkau]

Thank you for the report. This may be related to #256.