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* [PATCH] Overlayfs: ovl_fill_merge() should use container_of() rather than direct cast
@ 2014-10-30 14:10 David Howells
  2014-10-30 14:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
  2014-10-30 14:47 ` David Howells
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2014-10-30 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: viro, miklos; +Cc: dhowells, linux-fsdevel, linux-unionfs, linux-kernel

ovl_fill_merge() effectively directly casts the buf pointer to an
ovl_readdir_data struct pointer, but the pointer actually points to the
dir_context struct contained therein.

So use container_of() instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index 910553f37aca..d142c2bf8f1e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ static void ovl_cache_put(struct ovl_dir_file *od, struct dentry *dentry)
 static int ovl_fill_merge(void *buf, const char *name, int namelen,
 			  loff_t offset, u64 ino, unsigned int d_type)
 {
-	struct ovl_readdir_data *rdd = buf;
+	struct dir_context *ctx = buf;
+	struct ovl_readdir_data *rdd =
+		container_of(ctx, struct ovl_readdir_data, ctx);
 
 	rdd->count++;
 	if (!rdd->is_merge)

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2014-10-30 16:37   ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-10-31  9:46     ` [PATCH fixed] vfs: make first argument of dir_context.actor typed Miklos Szeredi
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