Re: tasklet scheduled after end of rmmod

[george anzinger]

Emmanuel Michon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as far as I understand nothing prevents a scheduled tasklet to have
> Linux jump to its routine, when the routine is in a module being
> rmmod'd. How should I take care of this?
> 
> Are timers safe regarding this (I mean, we can consider the timer
> function won't be called as soon as del_timer() has returned)?

No, but  del_timer_sync() is.  See comments in
.../kernel/timer.c

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