If the timer handlers need a lock owned by the thread calling del_timer_sync(), then, the caller thread will block forever. Duoming Zhou (11): drivers: tty: serial: Fix deadlock in sa1100_set_termios() drivers: usb: host: Fix deadlock in oxu_bus_suspend() drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop() drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback() drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Fix deadlock in rtllib_beacons_stop() drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle() drivers: net: hippi: Fix deadlock in rr_close() drivers: net: can: Fix deadlock in grcan_close() drivers: infiniband: hw: Fix deadlock in irdma_cleanup_cm_core() arch: xtensa: platforms: Fix deadlock in iss_net_close() arch: xtensa: platforms: Fix deadlock in rs_close() arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/console.c | 4 +++- arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c | 2 ++ drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/cm.c | 5 ++++- drivers/net/can/grcan.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c | 2 ++ drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 4 ++++ drivers/tty/serial/sa1100.c | 2 ++ drivers/usb/host/oxu210hp-hcd.c | 2 ++ 10 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1