From: Julia Lawall Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:49:19 +0000 (+0200) Subject: watchdog: via_wdt: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync X-Git-Tag: v3.16-rc1~50^2~23 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3813ff8b38b265b6c25f3946d5850273deba03a3;p=linux.git watchdog: via_wdt: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before the driver exits. This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r@ identifier i,t,ex; @@ struct t i = { .remove = ex, }; @@ identifier r.ex; @@ ex(...) { <... - del_timer + del_timer_sync (...) ...> } // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck --- diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c index d2cd9f0bcb9a..56369c4f1961 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int wdt_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, static void wdt_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) { watchdog_unregister_device(&wdt_dev); - del_timer(&timer); + del_timer_sync(&timer); iounmap(wdt_mem); release_mem_region(mmio, VIA_WDT_MMIO_LEN); release_resource(&wdt_res);