Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipset: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Oct 05 2017 - 14:15:48 EST


On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Jozsef Kadlecsik
<kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>> In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer
>> to all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and
>> from_timer() to pass the timer pointer explicitly. This introduces a
>> pointer back to the struct ip_set, which is used instead of the struct
>> timer_list .data field.
>
> Please add the same changes to net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list.c too, in
> order to handle all ipset modules in a single patch. I don't see a way
> either to avoid the introduction of the new pointer.

Ah yes, thanks. I'll send a v2 with that included.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security