When freeing the fw_priv the item is taken off the list. This causes an
oops in the FW_OPT_NOCACHE case as the list object is not initialized.

Make sure to initialize the list object regardless of this flag.

Fixes: 422b3db2a503 ("firmware: Fix security issue with 
request_firmware_into_buf()")
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Rishabh Bhatnagar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c 
b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
index b3c0498ee433..8e9213b36e31 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
@@ -226,8 +226,11 @@ static int alloc_lookup_fw_priv(const char *fw_name,
        }
 
        tmp = __allocate_fw_priv(fw_name, fwc, dbuf, size);
-       if (tmp && !(opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOCACHE))
-               list_add(&tmp->list, &fwc->head);
+       if (tmp) {
+               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->list);
+               if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOCACHE))
+                       list_add(&tmp->list, &fwc->head);
+       }
        spin_unlock(&fwc->lock);
 
        *fw_priv = tmp;
-- 
2.18.0

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