From dab058fd5ff834cb3b9de1d930ce731a605eb0c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:51:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] floppy: cancel any pending fd_timeouts before adding a new one In commit 070ad7e793dc ("floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq") the 'fd_timeout' timer was converted to a delayed work. However, the "del_timer(&fd_timeout)" was lost in the process, and any previous pending timeouts would stay active when we then re-queued the timeout. This resulted in the floppy probe sequence having a (stale) 20s timeout rather than the intended 3s timeout, and thus made booting with the floppy driver (but no actual floppy controller) take much longer than it should. Of course, there's little reason for most people to compile the floppy driver into the kernel at all, which is why most people never noticed. Canceling the delayed work where we used to do the del_timer() fixes the issue, and makes the floppy probing use the proper new timeout instead. The three second timeout is still very wasteful, but better than the 20s one. Reported-and-tested-by: Andi Kleen Reported-and-tested-by: Calvin Walton Cc: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/block/floppy.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c index cce7df3..553f43a 100644 --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c @@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ static void __reschedule_timeout(int drive, const char *message) if (drive == current_reqD) drive = current_drive; + __cancel_delayed_work(&fd_timeout); if (drive < 0 || drive >= N_DRIVE) { delay = 20UL * HZ; -- 2.7.4