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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:15:50 +0200
From: Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, 
	Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@...il.com>
Subject: Re: refactor tasklets to avoid unsigned long argument

Le lun. 22 juil. 2019 à 19:19, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> a écrit :
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 07:55:33PM +0200, Romain Perier wrote:
> > Ok, thanks for these explanations.
>
> (Reminder: please use inline-context email replies instead of
> top-posting, this makes threads much easier to read.)

Arf, good point. My bad :)

>
>
> Looks good! I wonder if you're able to use Coccinelle to generate the
> conversion patch? There appear to be just under 400 callers of
> tasklet_init(), which is a lot to type by hand. :)

Mmmhhh, I did not thought *at all* to coccinelle for this, good idea.
I am gonna to read some docs about the tool

>
> Also, have you found any other tasklet users that are NOT using
> tasklet_init()? The timer_struct conversion had about three ways
> to do initialization. :(

This is what I was looking before you give me details about the task.
It seems, there
is only one way to init a tasklet. I have just re-checked, it seems ok.

Thanks for your feedbacks,
Regards,
Romain

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