Re: [PATCH] TPM: cleanups

[Andrew Morton]

Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  +	schedule_work(&chip->work);
>  +}
>  +
>  +static void timeout_work(void * ptr)
>  +{
>  +	struct tpm_chip *chip = (struct tpm_chip*) ptr;
>  +

I cannot see where the tpm driver stops that timer which it has running on
device close or on module unload.

Wherever it is, we'll now also need a flush_scheduled_work() to avoid a race
wherein the work handler is still executing while the module gets
unloaded.
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