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On Tue 2022-12-20 13:45:19, Steven Rostedt wrote:
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> Linus,
>
> I ran the script against your latest master branch:
> commit b6bb9676f2165d518b35ba3bea5f1fcfc0d969bf
>
> As the timer_shutdown*() code is now in your tree, I figured
> we can start doing the conversions. At least add the trivial ones
> now as Thomas suggested that this gets applied at the end of the
> merge window, to avoid conflicts with linux-next during the
> development cycle. I can wait to Friday to run it again, and
> resubmit.
>
> What is the best way to handle this?
> ]
>
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
> shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
> called "shutdown". After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
> longer be re-armed.
>
> The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
> del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
> object holding the timer is freed. It also ignores any locations where the
> timer->function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(), as
> that is not considered a "trivial" case.
>
> This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:
LED parts looks good to me.
Getting it in just before -rc1 would be best solution for me.
Best regards,
Pavel
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