I haven't reviewed this in detail, but what ensures the timer is synchronously removed when the forker goes away? I don't see a del_timer_sync call anywhere. For now it might be easier to just skip this patch and leave it for later. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html