linux-kernel - Re: Converting struct timer_list callback argument to struct timer

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Message-ID: <20170904060748.GC31083@infradead.org>
Date:   Sun, 3 Sep 2017 23:07:48 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Converting struct timer_list callback argument to struct
 timer_list *

On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> It feels weird to have different semantics from container_of() too, so
> I'll probably just switch everything around to be like all the others,
> in that they are just direct wrappers around container_of()... I'll
> settle on something and switch everything over.

I really like the idea of passing in a variable and not the type,
though.  Maybe we need to add a new generic helper for that, I just
can't think of a good name.