staging: rtl8712: fix race condition
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: 8c213fa5 ("staging: r8712u: Use asynchronous firmware loading") Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcaov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731110620.116562-1-namcaov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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