Re: [PATCH v2] target/iscsi: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Oct 30 2017 - 20:04:56 EST


On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 02:19 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> 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. Includes a fix for correcting an
>> on-stack timer usage.
>
> Hello Kees,
>
> These changes look good to me but I would like to test this patch. Is there
> a tree available somewhere that includes this patch?

I didn't, but in case it's easier to test, I have put it up here,
which is just tip/timers/core with the two target timer patches on
top:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/timer/tip/target

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security