From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:08:33 -0700
> 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 adds a pointer back to the > net_device, and drops needless open-coded resetting of the .function and > .data fields. > > Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]> > Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > --- > This requires commit 686fef928bba ("timer: Prepare to change timer > callback argument type") in v4.14-rc3, but should be otherwise > stand-alone. This doesn't apply cleanly to net-next, please respin.
