linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 171/305] HID: elo: kill not flush the work

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Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Oliver Neukum" <oneukum@...e.com>,
	"Oliver Neukum" <ONeukum@...e.com>,
	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"Benjamin Tissoires" <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 171/305] HID: elo: kill not flush the work

3.16.37-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>

commit ed596a4a88bd161f868ccba078557ee7ede8a6ef upstream.

Flushing a work that reschedules itself is not a sensible operation. It needs
to be killed. Failure to do so leads to a kernel panic in the timer code.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-elo.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hid/hid-elo.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-elo.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void elo_remove(struct hid_device
 	struct elo_priv *priv = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
 
 	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
-	flush_workqueue(wq);
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->work);
 	kfree(priv);
 }