From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965775AbcHNLmk (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 07:42:40 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:52423 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934244AbcHNLc5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 07:32:57 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Oliver Neukum" , "Oliver Neukum" , "Jiri Kosina" , "Benjamin Tissoires" Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 171/305] HID: elo: kill not flush the work In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 92.40.249.202 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.37-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Oliver Neukum commit ed596a4a88bd161f868ccba078557ee7ede8a6ef upstream. Flushing a work that reschedules itself is not a sensible operation. It needs to be killed. Failure to do so leads to a kernel panic in the timer code. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/hid/hid-elo.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-elo.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-elo.c @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void elo_remove(struct hid_device struct elo_priv *priv = hid_get_drvdata(hdev); hid_hw_stop(hdev); - flush_workqueue(wq); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->work); kfree(priv); }