[PATCH] timer: Remove meaningless .data/.function assignments

[PATCH] timer: Remove meaningless .data/.function assignments

[Kees Cook]

Several timer users needlessly reset their .function/.data fields during
their timer callback, but nothing else changes them. Some users do not
use their .data field at all. Each instance is removed here.

Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Aditya Shankar <aditya.shankar@microchip.com>
Cc: Ganesh Krishna <ganesh.krishna@microchip.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> # for staging
Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> # for wan/hdlc*
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> # for amiflop
---
This should go via the timer/core tree, please. It's been acked by each
of the maintainers. Thanks!
---
 drivers/block/amiflop.c                           | 3 +--
 drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c                      | 2 --
 drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c                         | 2 --
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c | 4 +---
 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/amiflop.c b/drivers/block/amiflop.c
index 49908c74bfcb..4e3fb9f104af 100644
--- a/drivers/block/amiflop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/amiflop.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void fd_deselect (int drive)
 
 }
 
-static void motor_on_callback(unsigned long nr)
+static void motor_on_callback(unsigned long ignored)
 {
 	if (!(ciaa.pra & DSKRDY) || --on_attempts == 0) {
 		complete_all(&motor_on_completion);
@@ -344,7 +344,6 @@ static int fd_motor_on(int nr)
 		fd_select(nr);
 
 		reinit_completion(&motor_on_completion);
-		motor_on_timer.data = nr;
 		mod_timer(&motor_on_timer, jiffies + HZ/2);
 
 		on_attempts = 10;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
index a408abc25512..f4b0ab34f048 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
@@ -276,8 +276,6 @@ static void cisco_timer(unsigned long arg)
 	spin_unlock(&st->lock);
 
 	st->timer.expires = jiffies + st->settings.interval * HZ;
-	st->timer.function = cisco_timer;
-	st->timer.data = arg;
 	add_timer(&st->timer);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
index 78596e42a3f3..07f265fa2826 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
@@ -644,8 +644,6 @@ static void fr_timer(unsigned long arg)
 			state(hdlc)->settings.t391 * HZ;
 	}
 
-	state(hdlc)->timer.function = fr_timer;
-	state(hdlc)->timer.data = arg;
 	add_timer(&state(hdlc)->timer);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c
index ac5aaafa461c..60f088babf27 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static void update_scan_time(void)
 		last_scanned_shadow[i].time_scan = jiffies;
 }
 
-static void remove_network_from_shadow(unsigned long arg)
+static void remove_network_from_shadow(unsigned long unused)
 {
 	unsigned long now = jiffies;
 	int i, j;
@@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ static void remove_network_from_shadow(unsigned long arg)
 	}
 
 	if (last_scanned_cnt != 0) {
-		hAgingTimer.data = arg;
 		mod_timer(&hAgingTimer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(AGING_TIME));
 	}
 }
@@ -304,7 +303,6 @@ static int is_network_in_shadow(struct network_info *pstrNetworkInfo,
 	int i;
 
 	if (last_scanned_cnt == 0) {
-		hAgingTimer.data = (unsigned long)user_void;
 		mod_timer(&hAgingTimer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(AGING_TIME));
 		state = -1;
 	} else {
-- 
2.7.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

Re: [PATCH] timer: Remove meaningless .data/.function assignments

[David Miller]

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:10:32 -0700

> Several timer users needlessly reset their .function/.data fields during
> their timer callback, but nothing else changes them. Some users do not
> use their .data field at all. Each instance is removed here.
> 
> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
> Cc: Aditya Shankar <aditya.shankar@microchip.com>
> Cc: Ganesh Krishna <ganesh.krishna@microchip.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> # for staging
> Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> # for wan/hdlc*
> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> # for amiflop
> ---
> This should go via the timer/core tree, please. It's been acked by each
> of the maintainers. Thanks!

For networking bits:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>