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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:14:45 -0700
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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 Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 08:50:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:48:28AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:56:25 -0700
> > Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > >> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at lib/debugobjects.c:502 debug_print_object+0xd0/0x100
> > > >> ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: neigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x480
> > > >>
> > > >> That happens with almost every test, so I may have missed some others
> > > >> in the noise.  
> > > > 
> > > > Can you add this?
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > It doesn't make a difference.
> > 
> > Ah, it also requires this (I have other debugging in that file, so it may
> > only apply with some fuzzing):
> > 
> 
> Almost good, except for the attached backtrace. That seems to happen
> on shutdown after bootting from a usb drive, but not on all platforms.
> 
> The warning is in __mod_timer():
> 
>         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!timer->function))
>                 return -EINVAL;
> 
> This may be due to the change in blk_sync_queue() which I suspect may
> be called prior to the last mod_timer() call. I'll add some debug code
> to verify.
> 

I see that additional requests are sent to the scsi device after the call
to blk_sync_queue(). The description of this function suggests that this
may happen. Overall it does not seem to be appropriate to call
del_timer_shutdown() from blk_sync_queue(). I'll change my test code
accordingly.

Guenter