Re: [PATCH 1/9] timer locking optimization

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Hi,

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Another problem. __mode_timer() does:
> 
> 	if (timer_pending(timer)) {
> 		detach_timer(timer, 0);
> 
> Note that 'clear_pending' parameter == 0. This means that detach_timer()
> will remove the timer from list, but won't clear 'pending' status. So
> this will crash after 'goto restart' (or in case of concurrent del_timer()).

I just noticed this too. I'll drop the patch and I'll also change the 
second patch.
Thanks for looking into this.

bye, Roman
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