mac80211_hwsim: Timer should be initialized before device registered
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1825058
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>
(cherry picked from commit
a1881c9b8a1edef0a5ae1d5c1b61406fe3402114)
Signed-off-by: You-Sheng Yang <vicamo.yang@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>