firmware loader: fix pending_fw_head list corruption
Got the following oops just before reboot: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [<8028d300>] (__list_del_entry+0x44/0xac) [<802e3320>] (__fw_load_abort.part.13+0x1c/0x50) [<802e337c>] (fw_shutdown_notify+0x28/0x50) [<80034f80>] (notifier_call_chain.isra.1+0x5c/0x9c) [<800350ec>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x58) [<80035114>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x18) [<80035d64>] (kernel_restart_prepare+0x14/0x38) [<80035d94>] (kernel_restart+0xc/0x50) The following race condition triggers here: _request_firmware_load() device_create_file(...) kobject_uevent(...) (schedule) (resume) firmware_loading_store(1) firmware_loading_store(0) list_del_init(&buf->pending_list) (schedule) (resume) list_add(&buf->pending_list, &pending_fw_head); wait_for_completion(&buf->completion); causing an oops later when walking pending_list after the firmware has been released. The proposed fix is to move the list_add() before sysfs attribute creation. Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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