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Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:42:27 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 20/31] timers: usb: Use del_timer_shutdown()
 before freeing timer
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:38:19 -0400
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 11:05:45AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > 
> > Before a timer is freed, del_timer_shutdown() must be called.  
> 
> Is this supposed to be true for all timers?  Because the USB subsystem 
> contains an awful lot more timers than just the two you touched in this 
> patch.

Yes, and this does mean that we are going to have to painstakingly find and
fix ever one of them. This is why the last patch updates
DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS to detect cases where I miss.

-- Steve