This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
HID: elo: kill not flush the work
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:
hid-elo-kill-not-flush-the-work.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 ed596a4a88bd161f868ccba078557ee7ede8a6ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:48:15 +0200
Subject: HID: elo: kill not flush the work
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
commit ed596a4a88bd161f868ccba078557ee7ede8a6ef upstream.
Flushing a work that reschedules itself is not a sensible operation. It needs
to be killed. Failure to do so leads to a kernel panic in the timer code.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-elo.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-elo.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-elo.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void elo_remove(struct hid_device
struct elo_priv *priv = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
hid_hw_stop(hdev);
- flush_workqueue(wq);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->work);
kfree(priv);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@xxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/hid-elo-kill-not-flush-the-work.patch
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