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treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
authorSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:12:31 +0000 (13:12 +0100)
committerJozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:19:04 +0000 (13:19 +0100)
commitf3e90afaaf9e391e4b79366767cdb3eeaf502369
treee30d5f0be5a64ee2fd18f1ef985ab5f0c6600b96
parent3dcf2f14e304b175db069be1afdd45eefad20a77
treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()

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>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
kernel/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c