linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: fix a potential bug in pointer casting

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:07:54 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: fix a potential bug in pointer casting

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Li Zefan wrote:

> Don't directly cast list_head * to foo *, this works only when list is 
> the first member of struct foo, and we should not make the assumption 
> how members are ordered in the structure.

Hi,

applied to my tree, thanks!

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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