Calling synchronize_irq() right before free_irq() is quite useless. On one hand the IRQ can easily fire again before free_irq() is entered, on the other hand free_irq() itself calls synchronize_irq() internally (in a race condition free way), before any state associated with the IRQ is freed. Patch was generated using the following semantic patch: // <smpl> @@ expression irq; @@ -synchronize_irq(irq); free_irq(irq, ...); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c index b51e726..e89a0f8d 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c @@ -5303,15 +5303,12 @@ static void beiscsi_quiesce(struct beiscsi_hba *phba, if (phba->msix_enabled) { for (i = 0; i <= phba->num_cpus; i++) { msix_vec = phba->msix_entries[i].vector; - synchronize_irq(msix_vec); free_irq(msix_vec, &phwi_context->be_eq[i]); kfree(phba->msi_name[i]); } } else - if (phba->pcidev->irq) { - synchronize_irq(phba->pcidev->irq); + if (phba->pcidev->irq) free_irq(phba->pcidev->irq, phba); - } pci_disable_msix(phba->pcidev); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phba->beiscsi_hw_check_task); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html