CVE-2021-47583 media: mxl111sf: change mutex_init() location

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mxl111sf: change mutexinit location Syzbot reported, that mxl111sfctrlmsg uses uninitialized mutex. The problem was in wrong mutexinit location. Previous mutexinit&state-msglock call was in -init function, but dvbusbv2init...

CVE-2021-47583

CVE-2021-47583 affects the Linux kernel’s media/mxl111sf driver. Syzbot reported an uninitialized mutex in mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() due to the previous mutex_init(&state->msg_lock) being called too late. The order of dvb_usbv2_init() calls meant mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() could run from frontend_attach be...