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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>,
	Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>,
	Ben Young Tae Kim <ytkim@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_qca: Use del_timer_sync() before freeing
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 15:29:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bbbf503-01c8-737e-fa25-37a6d89d3354@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220406124645.3a1ce66e@gandalf.local.home>


On 4/6/22 09:46, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 09:36:10 -0700
> Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
>>> So we have a chicken verses egg issue here?
>>>    
>> Almost looks like it, unless I am missing something. Maybe some flag
>> is needed to prevent the timer handling code from queuing into the
>> destroyed workqueue, or the workqueue handler from updating the timer.
> That's exactly what I was thinking. I do not know all the code here. I
> could try to write a patch, but I may likely miss something.
>
> -- Steve


Take a look at

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=1946014ca3b19be9e485e780e862c375c6f98bad


Ie, use an ->live  (or ->dead) field.



      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-06 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-04 22:22 [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_qca: Use del_timer_sync() before freeing Steven Rostedt
2022-04-05  0:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-04-05  1:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-06 15:39   ` Guenter Roeck
2022-04-06 15:46     ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-06 16:36       ` Guenter Roeck
2022-04-06 16:46         ` Steven Rostedt
2022-04-06 22:29           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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