netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage

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Date:   Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dnelson@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sgoutham@...vell.com, rrichter@...vell.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex
 before first usage

From: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
Date: Wed,  5 Aug 2020 13:18:48 -0500

> A VF's mailbox mutex is not getting initialized by nicvf_probe() until after
> it is first used. And such usage is resulting in...
 ...
> This problem is resolved by moving the call to mutex_init() up earlier
> in nicvf_probe().
> 
> Fixes: 609ea65c65a0 ("net: thunderx: add mutex to protect mailbox from concurrent calls for same VF")
> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>

Applied, thank you.