wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-38316",
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    "title": "wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor() The function mt7996_set_monitor() dereferences phy before the NULL sanity check. Fix this to avoid NULL pointer dereference by moving the dereference after the check.",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2025-07-10T07:42:23.219+00:00"
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