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ALSA: ak4117: Do not free priv until timer handler hasn't actually stopped using it

Function del_timer() does not guarantee that timer was really deleted.
If the timer handler is beeing executed at the moment, the function
does nothing. So, it's possible to use already freed memory in the handler:

[ref: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl]

This was found using grep and compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Kirill Tkhai 11 years ago
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sound/i2c/other/ak4117.c

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static void reg_dump(struct ak4117 *ak4117)
 
 static void snd_ak4117_free(struct ak4117 *chip)
 {
-	del_timer(&chip->timer);
+	del_timer_sync(&chip->timer);
 	kfree(chip);
 }