Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [net/wireless/iwlwifi] : iwlwifi 3945 Fix race conditional panic.

From: Zhu Yi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:10:56 +0800

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 19:41 +0900, Joonwoo Park wrote:
> [net/wireless/iwlwifi] : iwlwifi 3945 Fix race conditional panic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <[email-masked]>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> index 465da4f..ac6c4a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> @@ -8570,6 +8570,7 @@ static void iwl_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>         IWL_DEBUG_INFO("*** UNLOAD DRIVER ***\n");
>  
>         mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
> +       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->init_alive_start);
>         set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status);
>         __iwl_down(priv);
>         mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);

Good catch. But it will be better if you add it into
iwl_cancel_deferred_work().

Thanks,
-yi