Linus,

As discussed here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221106212427.739928660@goodmis.org/

Add a "shutdown" state for timers. This is performed by the new timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() function calls. When this is called on a timer, it will no longer be able to be re-armed. This should be called before a timer is freed to prevent it from being re-armed after being removed from the timer queue and then causing a crash in the timer code when the timer triggers.

This required renaming some functions that were using the name timer_shutdown() statically to something more appropriate.

Then a coccinelle script was executed on the entire kernel tree to find the trivial locations that remove the timer and then frees the object that the timer exists on.

These changes are not enough to solve all the locations where timers may be of an issue. But by adding the shutdown infrastructure and the obvious cases, the more complex cases can be added after they have been reviewed more closely.

Please pull the following tree, which can be found at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git add-timer-shutdown

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Steven Rostedt (Google) (5): ARM: spear: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function clocksource/drivers/sp804: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() to be called before freeing timers treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()

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