On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 02:19:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 07:31:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:06:36AM +0530, Allen Pais wrote: > > > Introduce container_from() as a generic helper instead of > > > sub-systems defining a private from_* API > > > (Eg: from_tasklets recently introduced in > > > 12cc923f1ccc: Tasklet: Introduce new initialization API) > > > > > > The helper is similar to container_of() in argument order > > > with the difference of naming the containing structure instead > > > of having to specify its type. > > > > > > Suggested-by: James E.J. Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> > > > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > > Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> > > > Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.l...@gmail.com> > > > > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > > > > Who can carry this so it can get used by multiple trees? Should I keep a > > git branch folks should merge when taking Allen's conversion patches? > > I can put it in my driver core tree, and give everyone a stable, signed, > tag to pull it from so that it can get propagated everywhere, if that > makes it easy for others to use it now.
Thank you; that would be lovely. :) -- Kees Cook
