linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15.y 05/14] timers: Get rid of del_singleshot_timer

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Message-Id: <20251128160539.358938-6-aha310510@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:05:30 +0900
From: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@...il.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 05/14] timers: Get rid of del_singleshot_timer_sync()

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

[ Upstream commit 9a5a305686971f4be10c6d7251c8348d74b3e014 ]

del_singleshot_timer_sync() used to be an optimization for deleting timers
which are not rearmed from the timer callback function.

This optimization turned out to be broken and got mapped to
del_timer_sync() about 17 years ago.

Get rid of the undocumented indirection and use del_timer_sync() directly.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.706987932@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@...il.com>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c     | 4 ++--
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c   | 6 +++---
 include/linux/timer.h                 | 2 --
 kernel/time/timer.c                   | 2 +-
 net/sunrpc/xprt.c                     | 2 +-
 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
index 56e56a09cc90..c3fbbf4d3db7 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ ssize_t tpm_common_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 out:
 	if (!priv->response_length) {
 		*off = 0;
-		del_singleshot_timer_sync(&priv->user_read_timer);
+		del_timer_sync(&priv->user_read_timer);
 		flush_work(&priv->timeout_work);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ __poll_t tpm_common_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 void tpm_common_release(struct file *file, struct file_priv *priv)
 {
 	flush_work(&priv->async_work);
-	del_singleshot_timer_sync(&priv->user_read_timer);
+	del_timer_sync(&priv->user_read_timer);
 	flush_work(&priv->timeout_work);
 	file->private_data = NULL;
 	priv->response_length = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
index 0d869b5e309c..8687e0bf3315 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
@@ -1116,8 +1116,8 @@ static int hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(struct hfa384x *hw,
 		if (ctlx == get_active_ctlx(hw)) {
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hw->ctlxq.lock, flags);
 
-			del_singleshot_timer_sync(&hw->reqtimer);
-			del_singleshot_timer_sync(&hw->resptimer);
+			del_timer_sync(&hw->reqtimer);
+			del_timer_sync(&hw->resptimer);
 			hw->req_timer_done = 1;
 			hw->resp_timer_done = 1;
 			usb_kill_urb(&hw->ctlx_urb);
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
index 4b08dc1da4f9..83fcb937a58e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ static void prism2sta_disconnect_usb(struct usb_interface *interface)
 		 */
 		prism2sta_ifstate(wlandev, P80211ENUM_ifstate_disable);
 
-		del_singleshot_timer_sync(&hw->throttle);
-		del_singleshot_timer_sync(&hw->reqtimer);
-		del_singleshot_timer_sync(&hw->resptimer);
+		del_timer_sync(&hw->throttle);
+		del_timer_sync(&hw->reqtimer);
+		del_timer_sync(&hw->resptimer);
 
 		/* Unlink all the URBs. This "removes the wheels"
 		 * from the entire CTLX handling mechanism.
diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index e78521bce565..3c166b4f704d 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -198,8 +198,6 @@ static inline int del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer)
 	return timer_delete_sync(timer);
 }
 
-#define del_singleshot_timer_sync(t) del_timer_sync(t)
-
 extern void init_timers(void);
 struct hrtimer;
 extern enum hrtimer_restart it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *);
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index d4ce3ebe2c8c..6cd908cfbad4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
 	timer_setup_on_stack(&timer.timer, process_timeout, 0);
 	__mod_timer(&timer.timer, expire, MOD_TIMER_NOTPENDING);
 	schedule();
-	del_singleshot_timer_sync(&timer.timer);
+	del_timer_sync(&timer.timer);
 
 	/* Remove the timer from the object tracker */
 	destroy_timer_on_stack(&timer.timer);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 2db834318d14..2bccb5a90934 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ xprt_request_enqueue_receive(struct rpc_task *task)
 	spin_unlock(&xprt->queue_lock);
 
 	/* Turn off autodisconnect */
-	del_singleshot_timer_sync(&xprt->timer);
+	del_timer_sync(&xprt->timer);
 }
 
 /**
--