From 199a81acf2bb66b5a640e6484aacd87bdd2a4854 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasyl Vavrychuk Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 01:02:12 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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: [] hrtimer_active+0x28/0x50 ... Call Trace: [] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x27/0x110 [] ? hrtimer_cancel+0x15/0x20 [] ? mac80211_hwsim_config+0x140/0x1c0 [mac80211_hwsim] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c index 477f9f2..670224b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -2698,6 +2698,10 @@ 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) { printk(KERN_DEBUG "mac80211_hwsim: ieee80211_register_hw failed (%d)\n", @@ -2722,10 +2726,6 @@ 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); list_add_tail(&data->list, &hwsim_radios); spin_unlock_bh(&hwsim_radio_lock); -- 2.7.4