From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: benjamin.thery@bull.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPv6]: use container_of() macro in fib6_clean_node()
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:40:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071008.204003.04077004.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071008163316.16798.19433.stgit@frecb000701.frec.bull.fr>
From: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:33:16 +0200
> In ip6_fib.c, fib6_clean_node() casts a fib6_walker_t pointer to
> a fib6_cleaner_t pointer assuming a struct fib6_walker_t (field 'w')
> is the first field in struct fib6_walker_t.
>
> To prevent any future problems that may occur if one day a field
> is inadvertently inserted before the 'w' field in struct fib6_cleaner_t,
> (and to improve readability), this patch uses the container_of() macro.
>
> Patch for net-2.6.24
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Applied, thanks Benjamin.
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2007-10-08 16:33 [PATCH] [IPv6]: use container_of() macro in fib6_clean_node() Benjamin Thery
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