Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > [ > Linus, > > I ran the script against your latest master branch: > commit b6bb9676f2165d518b35ba3bea5f1fcfc0d969bf > > As the timer_shutdown*() code is now in your tree, I figured > we can start doing the conversions. At least add the trivial ones > now as Thomas suggested that this gets applied at the end of the > merge window, to avoid conflicts with linux-next during the > development cycle. I can wait to Friday to run it again, and > resubmit. > > What is the best way to handle this? > ] > > From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are > shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added > called "shutdown". After a timer is set to this state, then it can no > longer be re-armed. > > The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where > del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the > object holding the timer is freed. It also ignores any locations where the > timer->function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(), as > that is not considered a "trivial" case. > > This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following commands: > > $ cat timer.cocci > @@ > expression ptr, slab; > identifier timer, rfield; > @@ > ( > - del_timer(&ptr->timer); > + timer_shutdown(&ptr->timer); > | > - del_timer_sync(&ptr->timer); > + timer_shutdown_sync(&ptr->timer); > ) > ... when strict > when != ptr->timer > ( > kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield); > | > kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr); > | > kfree(ptr); > ) > > $ spatch timer.cocci . > /tmp/t.patch > $ patch -p1 < /tmp/t.patch > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> For wireless: > .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/btcoex.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_ap.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/hif.c | 6 +++--- Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
