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From:   Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:23:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 0/3] Address potential user-after-free on module unload
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
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        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Hi Miguel,

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 8:11 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Indeed! Note that I didn't mean to say they are trivial issues or that
> the solution is simply to replace cancel_delayed_work() with the
> _sync() version in all cases -- only that it might be a good idea to
> suggest its existence (instead of only suggesting devm_, because in
> cases like drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c it may be the simplest fix).
>

I will try to get your suggestion in, as I move forward with this
Coccinelle script.

Cheers,
Sven