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Commit f4032d61 authored by Jarkko Sakkinen's avatar Jarkko Sakkinen Committed by Jarkko Sakkinen
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tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation



/dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can
lead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario.

Address this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the
driver initialization.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6f99612e ("tpm: Proxy driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs")
Reviewed-by: default avatarStefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@tuni.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
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