mac80211_hwsim: Timer should be initialized before device registered
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811077 commit a1881c9b 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> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
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