From 3813ff8b38b265b6c25f3946d5850273deba03a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Lawall Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:49:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c index d2cd9f0..56369c4 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ err_out_disable_device: 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); -- 2.7.4