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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:02:01 +0100
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On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 13:45 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> [
>   Linus,
> 
>     I ran the script against your latest master branch:
>     commit b6bb9676f2165d518b35ba3bea5f1fcfc0d969bf
> 
>     As the timer_shutdown*() code is now in your tree, I figured
>     we can start doing the conversions. At least add the trivial ones
>     now as Thomas suggested that this gets applied at the end of the
>     merge window, to avoid conflicts with linux-next during the
>     development cycle. I can wait to Friday to run it again, and
>     resubmit.
> 
>     What is the best way to handle this?
> ]
> 
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
> shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
> called "shutdown". After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
> longer be re-armed.
> 
> The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
> del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
> object holding the timer is freed. It also ignores any locations where the
> timer->function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(), as
> that is not considered a "trivial" case.
> 
> This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following commands:
> 
>  $ cat timer.cocci
> @@
> expression ptr, slab;
> identifier timer, rfield;
> @@
> (
> -       del_timer(&ptr->timer);
> +       timer_shutdown(&ptr->timer);
> > 
> -       del_timer_sync(&ptr->timer);
> +       timer_shutdown_sync(&ptr->timer);
> )
>   ... when strict
>       when != ptr->timer
> (
>         kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
> > 
>         kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
> > 
>         kfree(ptr);
> )
> 
>  $ spatch timer.cocci . > /tmp/t.patch
>  $ patch -p1 < /tmp/t.patch
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

For the networking bits:

>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c      |  6 +++---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c              |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c               |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c                     |  2 +-
>  net/802/garp.c                                   |  2 +-
>  net/802/mrp.c                                    |  4 ++--
>  net/bridge/br_multicast.c                        |  8 ++++----
>  net/bridge/br_multicast_eht.c                    |  4 ++--
>  net/core/gen_estimator.c                         |  2 +-
>  net/ipv4/ipmr.c                                  |  2 +-
>  net/ipv6/ip6mr.c                                 |  2 +-
>  net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c                      |  2 +-
>  net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c            |  2 +-
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c                  |  2 +-
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c                 |  2 +-
>  net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c                     |  4 ++--
>  net/netfilter/xt_LED.c                           |  2 +-
>  net/sched/cls_flow.c                             |  2 +-
>  net/sunrpc/svc.c                                 |  2 +-
>  net/tipc/discover.c                              |  2 +-
>  net/tipc/monitor.c                               |  2 +-

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>