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SubjectRe: tasklet scheduled after end of rmmod
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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