mac80211_hwsim: Timer should be initialized before device registered
commit a1881c9b8a1edef0a5ae1d5c1b61406fe3402114 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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