watchdog: via_wdt: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync
Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exits.
This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
identifier i,t,ex;
@@
struct t i = { .remove = ex, };
@@
identifier r.ex;
@@
ex(...) {
<...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
(...)
...>
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c
index d2cd9f0..56369c4 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
static void wdt_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
watchdog_unregister_device(&wdt_dev);
- del_timer(&timer);
+ del_timer_sync(&timer);
iounmap(wdt_mem);
release_mem_region(mmio, VIA_WDT_MMIO_LEN);
release_resource(&wdt_res);
