linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 20/31] timers: usb: Use del_timer

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Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:29:50 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@...gutronix.de>,
        Bhuvanesh Surachari <Bhuvanesh_Surachari@...tor.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 20/31] timers: usb: Use del_timer_shutdown()
 before freeing timer

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:25:32 -0700
Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:

> On 10/28/22 13:40, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:59:59 -0700
> > Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:  
> >>
> >> I'll test again with the following changes on top of your published
> >> patch series. I hope this is the current status, but I may have lost
> >> something.
> >>
> >> Looking into it ... deactivate_timer() doesn't do anything
> >> and seems wrong. Did I miss something ?  
> > 
> > You mean debug_deactivate_timer() or debug_deactivate?
> >   
> 
> This:
> 
> +static void deactivate_timer(struct work_struct *work, bool is_dwork)
> +{
> +       struct delayed_work *dwork;
> +
> +       if (!is_dwork)
> +               return;
> +
> +       dwork = to_delayed_work(work);
> +}

Oh, that was part of my trying to figure out WTF delayed work was doing
with its timers. You can delete it's existence.

Thanks (and I'll go remove it from my tree).

-- Steve