From a1881c9b8a1edef0a5ae1d5c1b61406fe3402114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vasyl.vavrychuk@globallogic.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 01:02:12 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: Timer should be initialized before device registered
Git-commit: a1881c9b8a1edef0a5ae1d5c1b61406fe3402114
Patch-mainline: v4.20-rc6
References: bsc#1051510

Otherwise if network manager starts configuring Wi-Fi interface
immidiatelly after getting notification of its creation, we will get
NULL pointer dereference:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: [<ffffffff95ae94c8>] hrtimer_active+0x28/0x50
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff95ae9997>] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x27/0x110
   [<ffffffff95ae9a95>] ? hrtimer_cancel+0x15/0x20
   [<ffffffffc0803bf0>] ? mac80211_hwsim_config+0x140/0x1c0 [mac80211_hwsim]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vasyl.vavrychuk@globallogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -2710,6 +2710,10 @@ static int mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(stru
 
 	wiphy_ext_feature_set(hw->wiphy, NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CQM_RSSI_LIST);
 
+	tasklet_hrtimer_init(&data->beacon_timer,
+			     mac80211_hwsim_beacon,
+			     CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+
 	err = ieee80211_register_hw(hw);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		pr_debug("mac80211_hwsim: ieee80211_register_hw failed (%d)\n",
@@ -2734,10 +2738,6 @@ static int mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(stru
 				    data->debugfs,
 				    data, &hwsim_simulate_radar);
 
-	tasklet_hrtimer_init(&data->beacon_timer,
-			     mac80211_hwsim_beacon,
-			     CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
-
 	spin_lock_bh(&hwsim_radio_lock);
 	err = rhashtable_insert_fast(&hwsim_radios_rht, &data->rht,
 				     hwsim_rht_params);