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authorVasyl Vavrychuk <vasyl.vavrychuk@globallogic.com>2018-10-18 01:02:12 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2018-11-09 10:55:32 +0300
commita1881c9b8a1edef0a5ae1d5c1b61406fe3402114 (patch)
tree5dc6b515811491167255d0bfc43f17cc8714b0bb /drivers/net
parent33483a6b88e4c4c3fc50178b185da52c55288b95 (diff)
downloadlinux-a1881c9b8a1edef0a5ae1d5c1b61406fe3402114.tar.xz
mac80211_hwsim: Timer should be initialized before device registered
Otherwise if network manager starts configuring Wi-Fi interface immidiatelly after getting notification of its creation, we will get NULL pointer dereference: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff95ae94c8>] hrtimer_active+0x28/0x50 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff95ae9997>] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x27/0x110 [<ffffffff95ae9a95>] ? hrtimer_cancel+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffffc0803bf0>] ? mac80211_hwsim_config+0x140/0x1c0 [mac80211_hwsim] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vasyl.vavrychuk@globallogic.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
index 07f958c63334..d1464e3e1be2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -2884,6 +2884,10 @@ static int mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(struct genl_info *info,
wiphy_ext_feature_set(hw->wiphy, NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CQM_RSSI_LIST);
+ tasklet_hrtimer_init(&data->beacon_timer,
+ mac80211_hwsim_beacon,
+ CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+
err = ieee80211_register_hw(hw);
if (err < 0) {
pr_debug("mac80211_hwsim: ieee80211_register_hw failed (%d)\n",
@@ -2908,10 +2912,6 @@ static int mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(struct genl_info *info,
data->debugfs,
data, &hwsim_simulate_radar);
- tasklet_hrtimer_init(&data->beacon_timer,
- mac80211_hwsim_beacon,
- CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
-
spin_lock_bh(&hwsim_radio_lock);
err = rhashtable_insert_fast(&hwsim_radios_rht, &data->rht,
hwsim_rht_params);