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Commit 3c446e6f authored by Jiri Slaby's avatar Jiri Slaby Committed by David S. Miller
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kcm: switch order of device registration to fix a crash

When kcm is loaded while many processes try to create a KCM socket, a
crash occurs:
 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e
 IP: mutex_lock+0x27/0x40 kernel/locking/mutex.c:240
 PGD 8000000016ef2067 P4D 8000000016ef2067 PUD 3d6e9067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 7005 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 4.12.14-396-default #1 SLE15-SP1 (unreleased)
 RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x27/0x40 kernel/locking/mutex.c:240
 RSP: 0018:ffff88000d487a00 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 1ffff100082b0719
 ...
 CR2: 000000000000000e CR3: 000000004b1bc003 CR4: 0000000000060ef0
 Call Trace:
  kcm_create+0x600/0xbf0 [kcm]
  __sock_create+0x324/0x750 net/socket.c:1272
 ...

This is due to race between sock_create and unfinished
register_pernet_device. kcm_create tries to do "net_generic(net,
kcm_net_id)". but kcm_net_id is not initialized yet.

So switch the order of the two to close the race....
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