From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before the driver exists. This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r@ declarer name module_exit; identifier ex; @@ module_exit(ex); @@ identifier r.ex; @@ ex(...) { <... - del_timer + del_timer_sync (...) ...> } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- Not tested. net/atm/mpc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/atm/mpc.c b/net/atm/mpc.c index b71ff6b..91dc58f 100644 --- a/net/atm/mpc.c +++ b/net/atm/mpc.c @@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ static void __exit atm_mpoa_cleanup(void) mpc_proc_clean(); - del_timer(&mpc_timer); + del_timer_sync(&mpc_timer); unregister_netdevice_notifier(&mpoa_notifier); deregister_atm_ioctl(&atm_ioctl_ops); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html