Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix kernel warning for improper call of del_timer_sync()

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On 05/25/2015 04:37 AM, Vaishali Thakkar wrote:

On 25 May 2015 14:49, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
 >
 > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
 > > On 05/24/2015 02:03 PM, Haggai Eran wrote:
 > > >On 24 May 2015 at 00:16, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
 > > >>The driver is reporting a warning at kernel/time/timer.c:1096 due to calling
 > > >>del_timer_sync() while in interrupt mode. Such warnings are fixed by calling
 > > >>del_timer() instead.
 > > >>
 > > >>Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
 > > >>Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
 > > >>Cc: Haggi Eran <haggai.eran@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:haggai.eran@xxxxxxxxx>>
 > > >
 > > >Hi,
 > > >
 > > >I haven't been using kernel v4.1 so I haven't seen this warning, but looking
 > > >at the code it seems to originate from the two recent patches to remove
 > > >_cancel_timer and _cancel_timer_ex. I see that there's another patch in
lkml [1]
 > > >that changes del_timer_sync back to del_timer in more places. Perhaps it
 > > >could prevent other warnings like this in the future.
 > > >
 > > >Regards,
 > > >Haggai
 > > >
 > > >[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/15/226
 > >
 > > Yes, the script kiddies make changes they do not understand and
 > > screw everything up. Unfortunately, I did not catch these in review.
 > > I think I will submit V2 and blast the contributor.
 >
 > Don't blast the contributor...  These are special intern patches that
 > dont' go through the normal review process.  The intern process is over
 > this year.  The lack of normal review introduced a number of bugs this
 > year.  I always complain to Greg about it and he says that I should join
 > the intern mailing list if I care so much.

I am sorry for those patches. It was me who introduced those bugs. Yes, it was
sent during Outreachy process. But it was my mistake as a newbie. May be I
should have taken care of interrupt mode thing.

I would like to fix it if someone is not doing it. Sorry again. I will take care
of these things in my future patches.

No, one of us will fix the problems with r8712u. The hardware is needed for proper testing, and I doubt that you have it.

Larry

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