On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote: >> In several places, .data is checked for initialization to gate early >> calls to del_timer_sync(). Checking for .function is equally valid, so >> switch to this in all callers. > > Not seeing the rest of patches it is unclear from the patch > description why this is needed/wanted.
The CC list would have been really giant, but here is the first patch and the earlier series list: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/31/904 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/30/760 tl;dr: We're going to switch all struct timer_list callbacks to get the timer pointer as the argument instead of from the .data field. This patch is one step in removing open-coded users of the .data field. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
