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Message-Id: <1415271082-7644-3-git-send-email-eli@mellanox.com>
Date:	Thu,  6 Nov 2014 12:51:22 +0200
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] net/mlx5_core: Fix race on driver load

When events arrive at driver load, the event handler gets called even before
the spinlock and list are initialized. Fix this by moving the initialization
before EQs creation.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
index 88b2ffa0edfb..ecc6341e728a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
@@ -855,14 +855,14 @@ static int init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	dev->profile = &profile[prof_sel];
 	dev->event = mlx5_core_event;
 
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->ctx_list);
+	spin_lock_init(&priv->ctx_lock);
 	err = mlx5_dev_init(dev, pdev);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "mlx5_dev_init failed %d\n", err);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->ctx_list);
-	spin_lock_init(&priv->ctx_lock);
 	err = mlx5_register_device(dev);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "mlx5_register_device failed %d\n", err);
-- 
2.1.2

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