linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/16] s390: tape: Use del_timer

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:22:07 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/16] s390: tape: Use del_timer_sync()

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 03:09:24PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> del_timer() does not wait for a possible running callback to
> complete. So the call side might free request and the associated
> objects while on another cpu the timer handler runs.

[...]

>  
> -	del_timer(&timeout);
> +	del_timer_sync(&timeout);

Applied, thanks.

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