There is a risk that the mediated device is used before all the data are initialized if it is registered too early. Let's register the mediated device when all the data structures which could be used are initialized. Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c b/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c index 2f2e5d1..bce7fed 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c @@ -141,14 +141,14 @@ static int vfio_ccw_sch_probe(struct subchannel *sch) if (ret) goto out_free; - ret = vfio_ccw_mdev_reg(sch); - if (ret) - goto out_disable; - INIT_WORK(&private->io_work, vfio_ccw_sch_io_todo); atomic_set(&private->avail, 1); private->state = VFIO_CCW_STATE_STANDBY; + ret = vfio_ccw_mdev_reg(sch); + if (ret) + goto out_disable; + return 0; out_disable: -- 2.7.4