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net: qca_spi: Fix possible race during probe

Message ID 1431158289-27946-1-git-send-email-stefan.wahren@i2se.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Stefan Wahren May 9, 2015, 7:58 a.m. UTC
Registering the netdev before setting the priv data is unsafe.
So fix this possible race by setting the priv data first.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
Fixes: 291ab06e (net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000)
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller May 11, 2015, 3:01 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Date: Sat,  9 May 2015 07:58:09 +0000

> Registering the netdev before setting the priv data is unsafe.
> So fix this possible race by setting the priv data first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
> Fixes: 291ab06e (net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000)

Applied, thanks.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
index 4a42e96..946317a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
@@ -913,6 +913,8 @@  qca_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi_device)
 	qca->spi_dev = spi_device;
 	qca->legacy_mode = legacy_mode;
 
+	spi_set_drvdata(spi_device, qcaspi_devs);
+
 	mac = of_get_mac_address(spi_device->dev.of_node);
 
 	if (mac)
@@ -945,8 +947,6 @@  qca_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi_device)
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	spi_set_drvdata(spi_device, qcaspi_devs);
-
 	qcaspi_init_device_debugfs(qca);
 
 	return 0;