On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 02:00:24AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Back in April, I posted an RFC patch set to help mitigate a common issue > where a timer gets armed just before it is freed, and when the timer > goes off, it crashes in the timer code without any evidence of who the > culprit was. I got side tracked and never finished up on that patch set. > Since this type of crash is still our #1 crash we are seeing in the field, > it has become a priority again to finish it. > > The last version of that patch set is here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221104054053.431922658@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > > I'm calling this version 4a as it only has obvious changes were the timer that > is being shutdown is in the same function where it will be freed or released, > as this series should be "safe" for adding. I'll be calling the other patches > 4b for the next merge window. > For the series, as far as my testbed goes: Build results: total: 152 pass: 152 fail: 0 Qemu test results: total: 500 pass: 500 fail: 0 No runtime crashes or warnings observed. Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Guenter
