From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: 1432415812-1285-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
haggai.eran@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Arek Rusniak <arek.rusi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix kernel warning for improper call of del_timer_sync()
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 10:59:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <556346EF.8000804@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150525044250.GA3385@sudip-PC>
On 05/24/2015 11:42 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> 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.
>
> _cancel_timer and _cancel_timer_ex both were internally using del_timer,
> and the issue was reported in bugzilla. I have given the reference of the
> bugzilla in my patch in lkml.
> I have changed the reference of del_timer_sync to del_timer in all places
> which were in interrupt context, in some places it was not removed as
> those were not in interrupt context.
Why did you not Cc the maintainers?? That is why file MAINTAINERS exists.
Was your patch sent to Greg?
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-25 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-25 4:42 [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix kernel warning for improper call of del_timer_sync() Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-25 15:59 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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2015-05-23 21:16 Larry Finger
2015-05-24 19:03 ` Haggai Eran
2015-05-25 0:11 ` Larry Finger
2015-05-25 9:17 ` Dan Carpenter
[not found] ` <CAK-LDb+1WscLTFw=NDY=_aUOGw72a4wRsqCU-1N+KJ11k15S5w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-25 10:12 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-25 15:52 ` Larry Finger
2015-05-25 17:37 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 4:46 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-26 4:55 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 5:02 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-26 5:07 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 5:30 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-26 15:31 ` Larry Finger
2015-05-26 14:14 ` Greg KH
2015-05-26 14:48 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 16:35 ` Greg KH
2015-05-26 17:06 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 20:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-26 20:30 ` Greg KH
2015-05-26 20:09 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-26 15:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-26 16:40 ` Larry Finger
2015-05-25 16:02 ` Larry Finger
2015-05-31 2:53 ` Greg KH
2015-05-31 2:54 ` Greg KH
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