Re: May the worker function free its struct_work (plus container)?

[Yong Zhang]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:47:23AM +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> may the worker function kfree() it's own work data structure?

Actually, workqueue has no restriction on this kind of operation.
But if you must be careful with the caller in case it will refer
the freed struct.

Thanks,
Yong
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