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[217.105.46.58]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n26-20020a170906089a00b00992ddf46e65sm5961001eje.46.2023.07.31.04.06.34 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 31 Jul 2023 04:06:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Nam Cao To: Larry Finger , Florian Schilhabel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Nam Cao , syzbot+b08315e8cf5a78eed03c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: fix race condition Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:06:20 +0200 Message-Id: <20230731110620.116562-1-namcaov@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" In probe function, request_firmware_nowait() is called to load firmware asynchronously. At completion of firmware loading, register_netdev() is called. However, a mutex needed by netdev is initialized after the call to request_firmware_nowait(). Consequently, it can happen that register_netdev() is called before the driver is ready. Move the mutex initialization into r8712_init_drv_sw(), which is called before request_firmware_nowait(). Reported-by: syzbot+b08315e8cf5a78eed03c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/000000000000d9d4560601b8e0d7@= google.com/T/#u Fixes: 8c213fa59199 ("staging: r8712u: Use asynchronous firmware loading") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nam Cao --- drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c | 1 + drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/o= s_intfs.c index a2f3645be0cc..b18e6d9c832b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ int r8712_init_drv_sw(struct _adapter *padapter) mp871xinit(padapter); init_default_value(padapter); r8712_InitSwLeds(padapter); + mutex_init(&padapter->mutex_start); =20 return 0; =20 diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/u= sb_intf.c index 37364d3101e2..df05213f922f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c @@ -567,7 +567,6 @@ static int r871xu_drv_init(struct usb_interface *pusb_i= ntf, if (rtl871x_load_fw(padapter)) goto deinit_drv_sw; init_completion(&padapter->rx_filter_ready); - mutex_init(&padapter->mutex_start); return 0; =20 deinit_drv_sw: --=20 2.34.1