This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip6mr: call del_timer_sync() in ip6mr_free_table() to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ip6mr-call-del_timer_sync-in-ip6mr_free_table.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7ba0c47c34a1ea5bc7a24ca67309996cce0569b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:01:47 -0700 Subject: ip6mr: call del_timer_sync() in ip6mr_free_table() From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> commit 7ba0c47c34a1ea5bc7a24ca67309996cce0569b5 upstream. We need to wait for the flying timers, since we are going to free the mrtable right after it. Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static struct mr6_table *ip6mr_new_table static void ip6mr_free_table(struct mr6_table *mrt) { - del_timer(&mrt->ipmr_expire_timer); + del_timer_sync(&mrt->ipmr_expire_timer); mroute_clean_tables(mrt, true); kfree(mrt); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/ip6mr-call-del_timer_sync-in-ip6mr_free_table.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html