From: Alexander Aring <alex.ar...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  4 Feb 2014 11:57:53 +0100

> @@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ static void lowpan_fragment_timer_expired(unsigned long 
> entry_addr)
>  
>       pr_debug("timer expired for frame with tag %d\n", entry->tag);
>  
> +     spin_lock_bh(&flist_lock);
>       list_del(&entry->list);
> +     spin_unlock_bh(&flist_lock);
>       dev_kfree_skb(entry->skb);
>       kfree(entry);
>  }

This will deadlock, because the other code path holding flist_lock calls
del_timer_sync() to wait for this timer to return.

The synchornization in this code is really a big mess.

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