ding() are unsynchronized and racy when used like this. I converted one instance in fullbatt_handler(). Please conver the rest so that it invokes workqueue APIs for the intended target state rather than trying to game work item pending state transitions. e.g. if timer should be modified - call mod_delayed_work(), canceled - call cancel_delayed_work[_sync](). * drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c: thermal_zone_device_set_polling() simplified. Note that round_jiffies() calls in this function are meaningless. round_jiffies() work on absolute jiffies not delta delay used by delayed_work. v2: Tomi pointed out that __cancel_delayed_work() users can't be safely converted to mod_delayed_work(). They could be calling it from irq context and if that happens while delayed_work_timer_fn() is running, it could deadlock. __cancel_delayed_work() users are dropped. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov Acked-by: David Howells Cc: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Doug Thompson Cc: David Airlie Cc: Roland Dreier Cc: "John W. Linville" Cc: Zhang Rui Cc: Len Brown Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Johannes Berg