On Dienstag, 28. November 2017 08:39:15 CET Sven Eckelmann wrote:
From: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org
This converts all remaining cases of the old setup_timer() API into using timer_setup(), where the callback argument is the structure already holding the struct timer_list. These should have no behavioral changes, since they just change which pointer is passed into the callback with the same available pointers after conversion. It handles the following examples, in addition to some other variations.
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TODO: this requires some compat code because this functionality was added first with v4.14 (we have to check in more detail)
Forgot to say that this is blocking the next release. It was merged into Torvalds' tree without spending its time in linux-next and directly entered v4.15-rc1.
Kind regards, Sven