On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 14:13:14 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And trying "when != ptr->timer" actually does the right thing in that > it gets rid of the case where the timer is modified outside of the > del_timer() case, *but* it also causes odd other changes to the > output. > > Look at what it generates for that > > drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-hdw.c > > file, which finds a lot of triggers with the "when != ptr->timer", > but only does one without it. I added an expression, and it appears to work: At least for this case. @@ expression E; identifier ptr, timer, rfield, slab; @@ ( - del_timer(&ptr->timer); + timer_shutdown(&ptr->timer); | - del_timer_sync(&ptr->timer); + timer_shutdown_sync(&ptr->timer); ) ... when != ptr->timer.function = E; ( kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield); | kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr); | kfree(ptr); ) Now I need to add return and goto cases here. -- Steve