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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 17:47:29 +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

Hi !

Work is in progress (that's an hobby not full time). I am testing the
build with "allyesconfig".
Do you think it is acceptable to change
drivers/mmc/host/renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac.c  to add a pointer to the
"struct device" or to the "host", so
renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac_complete_tasklet_fn() could access "host"
from the tasklet parameter
because currently, it is not possible.
from the tasklet you can access "dma_priv", from "dma_priv" you can
access "priv", then from "priv", you're blocked :)


This is what I have done for now  :
https://salsa.debian.org/rperier-guest/linux-tree/commit/a0e5735129b4118a1df55b02fead6fa9b7996520
   (separately)

Then the handler would be something like:
https://salsa.debian.org/rperier-guest/linux-tree/commit/5fe1eaeb45060a7df10d166cc96e0bdcf0024368
  (scroll down to renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac_complete_tasklet_fn() ).

What do you think ?

Regards,
Romain

Le mar. 23 juil. 2019 à 10:15, Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com> a écrit :
>
> 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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