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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hdlc: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:19:08 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:08:33 -0700

> 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. This adds a pointer back to the
> net_device, and drops needless open-coded resetting of the .function and
> .data fields.
> 
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> This requires commit 686fef928bba ("timer: Prepare to change timer
> callback argument type") in v4.14-rc3, but should be otherwise
> stand-alone.

This doesn't apply cleanly to net-next, please respin.