Re: [PATCH] RDMA/i40iw: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 14:37:49 EST


On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 06:17:23PM -0500, Shiraz Saleem wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 05:45:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > Cc: Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > This requires commit 686fef928bba ("timer: Prepare to change timer
>> > callback argument type") in v4.14-rc3, but should be otherwise
>> > stand-alone.
>> > ---
>>
>> Patch looks ok. Did some minimal testing and looks good.
>>
>> Acked-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Hi Kees,
>
> Sorry, I didnt notice this earlier, but, you made the change only to the stats timer
> to use the new timer init APIs. Can you do the same for the cm_timer and terminate_timer
> too for i40iw; so that things are consistent?
>
> [ssaleem@linbuild6081 i40iw]$ grep "setup_timer" *
> i40iw_cm.c: setup_timer(&cm_core->tcp_timer, i40iw_cm_timer_tick,
> i40iw_utils.c: setup_timer(&iwqp->terminate_timer, i40iw_terminate_timeout,
> i40iw_utils.c: setup_timer(&devstat->stats_timer, i40iw_hw_stats_timeout,

Hi! (Sorry for the delay, I missed this email, thanks for the reminder.)

I will send a follow-up with these added. (They were trivial
conversions, so they were originally part of my tree's tree-wide mass
conversion before I started pulling per-subsystem conversions out into
separate patches.)

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security