public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Converting struct timer_list callback argument to struct timer_list *
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 23:07:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170904060748.GC31083@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKk59gY43hhbpOKZxp14b3wawE2Epv0KcBLkfbkx=Sv9g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> It feels weird to have different semantics from container_of() too, so
> I'll probably just switch everything around to be like all the others,
> in that they are just direct wrappers around container_of()... I'll
> settle on something and switch everything over.

I really like the idea of passing in a variable and not the type,
though.  Maybe we need to add a new generic helper for that, I just
can't think of a good name.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-04  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-30 23:39 Converting struct timer_list callback argument to struct timer_list * Kees Cook
2017-08-31 20:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-08-31 23:32   ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 10:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-01 10:21   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-09-01 10:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-01 16:24       ` Kees Cook
2017-09-03  7:37         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-03 20:18           ` Kees Cook
2017-09-04  6:07             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20170904060748.GC31083@infradead.org \
    --to=hch@infradead.org \
    --cc=keescook@chromium.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox