Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 00/31] timers: Use del_timer_shutdown() before freeing timers

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:11:43 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 12:02 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So it works on current stable and current mainline? Does that mean we need
> > to worry about this?  
> 
> No, I think Guenter is saying that current mainline *without* the
> patches works fine.
> 
> But v6.1-rc2 (which is quite close to that current mainline) *with*
> the patches blows up.
> 
> So it's almost certainly the patches that break. There are no
> appreciable timer changes in those 105 commits (there's some added
> irq_work_sync but that looks very unlikely to be related.
> 

Got it. I'll need to setup an arm64 VM to see if I can reproduce it.

-- Steve