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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: keil@b1-systems.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mISDN: Fix wrong usage of flush_work_sync while holding locks
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:59:37 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913.145937.235693485700301637.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347546980-15923-1-git-send-email-keil@b1-systems.de>

From: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:36:20 +0200

> It is a bad idea to hold a spinlock and call flush_work_sync.
> Move the workqueue cleanup outside the spinlock and use cancel_work_sync,
> on closing the channel this seems to be the more correct function.
> Remove the never used and constant return value of mISDN_freebchannel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

Applied, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-13 14:36 [PATCH] mISDN: Fix wrong usage of flush_work_sync while holding locks Karsten Keil
2012-09-13 18:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-09-13 19:06   ` David Miller
2012-09-13 19:50     ` Karsten Keil

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