On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 07:29:26AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > That thing should be del_timer_sync(); consider what happens > if ext4_put_super() call of del_timer() happens to come just as it's > getting run on another CPU. Since that timer reschedules itself > to run next day, you are pretty much guaranteed that you'll end up > with kfree'd scheduled timer, with usual fun consequences. AFAICS, > that's -stable fodder all way back to 2010... [the second del_timer_sync() > is almost certainly not needed, but it doesn't hurt either] > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Nice catch. Thanks, applied. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
