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Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 19/31] timers: net: Use del_timer_shutdown() before f

To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 19/31] timers: net: Use del_timer_shutdown() before freeing timer
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>, Mirko Lindner <mlindner@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>, Menglong Dong <imagedong@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tipc-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:31:49 -0400
Could someone from networking confirm (or deny) that the timer being
removed in sk_stop_timer() will no longer be used even if del_timer()
returns false?

net/core/sock.c:

void sk_stop_timer(struct sock *sk, struct timer_list* timer)
{
        if (del_timer(timer))
                __sock_put(sk);
}

If this is the case, then I'll add the following interface:

   del_timer_sync_shutdown() // the common case which syncs

   del_timer_shutdown() // the uncommon case, that returns immediately
                        // used for those cases that add extra code to
                        // handle it, like sk_stop_timer()


Which has the same semantics as del_timer_sync() and del_timer()
respectively, but will prevent the timer from being rearmed again.

This way we can convert the sk_stop_timer() to:

void sk_stop_timer(struct sock *sk, struct timer_list* timer)
{
        if (del_timer_shutdown(timer))
                __sock_put(sk);
}


We can also add the del_timer_shutdown() to other locations that need to
put a timer into a shutdown state before freeing, and where it's in a
context that can not call del_timer_sync_shutdown().

-- Steve

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