From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ben Greear , Johannes Berg Subject: [ 154/221] mac80211: use del_timer_sync for final sta cleanup timer deletion Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:51:21 -0800 Message-Id: <20130115185009.169084452@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130115184958.025580322@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130115184958.025580322@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johannes Berg commit a56f992cdabc63f56b4b142885deebebf936ff76 upstream. This is a very old bug, but there's nothing that prevents the timer from running while the module is being removed when we only do del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync(). The timer should normally not be running at this point, but it's not clearly impossible (or we could just remove this.) Tested-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ void sta_info_init(struct ieee80211_loca void sta_info_stop(struct ieee80211_local *local) { - del_timer(&local->sta_cleanup); + del_timer_sync(&local->sta_cleanup); sta_info_flush(local, NULL); }