Re: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > OK, so that's a spin_unlock(&timer->lock) in the timer code itself.  Your
> > patch will fix that up.
> > 
> > We just need to be sure that the del_timer_sync() is not called while holding
> > any locks which would prevent the timer handler from completing.  
> 
> Quick audit says we should be ok. I can do a few simple tests on this.

Ok came up and went down clean.

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