From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before the driver exits. This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r@ identifier i,t,ex; @@ struct t i = { .remove = ex, }; @@ identifier r.ex; @@ ex(...) { <... - del_timer + del_timer_sync (...) ...> } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- Not tested. drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c index d2cd9f0..56369c4 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ err_out_disable_device: static void wdt_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) { watchdog_unregister_device(&wdt_dev); - del_timer(&timer); + del_timer_sync(&timer); iounmap(wdt_mem); release_mem_region(mmio, VIA_WDT_MMIO_LEN); release_resource(&wdt_res); -- 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
