Hi Ulisses, On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Ulisses Furquim <ulisses@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do not wait for delayed work to finish where it's not needed. In the > case of adv_work the handler is already protected by the hdev lock > and removing the wait we also avoid introducing deadlocks involving > the delayed work lock. > > Signed-off-by: Ulisses Furquim <ulisses@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 2 +- > net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c > index a7b7200..b4041be 100644 > --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c > +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c > @@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@ void hci_unregister_dev(struct hci_dev *hdev) > > hci_del_sysfs(hdev); > > - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&hdev->adv_work); > + cancel_delayed_work(&hdev->adv_work); I'm afraid we'll introduce a race condition if we don't use the _sync variant at hci_unregister_dev. If we don't wait adv_work finish it may be running after hdev object is freed. > > destroy_workqueue(hdev->workqueue); > > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c > index c2fe964..f28cbae 100644 > --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c > +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c > @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static void hci_cc_le_set_scan_enable(struct hci_dev *hdev, > case LE_SCANNING_ENABLED: > set_bit(HCI_LE_SCAN, &hdev->dev_flags); > > - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&hdev->adv_work); > + cancel_delayed_work(&hdev->adv_work); > > hci_dev_lock(hdev); > hci_adv_entries_clear(hdev); BR, Andre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html