Re: [PATCH 07/58] net/usb/usbnet: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 06:33:55 EST


Am Montag, den 16.10.2017, 17:28 -0700 schrieb Kees Cook:
> 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. Since the callback is called from
> both a timer and a tasklet, adjust the tasklet to pass the timer address
> too. When tasklets have their .data field removed, this can be refactored
> to call a central function after resolving the correct container_of() for a
> separate callback function for timer and tasklet.
>
> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>