netdev - [PATCH] rt6_probe_deferred: Do not depend on struct ordering

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Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 2015 10:14:07 +0100
From:	Michael Büsch <m@...s.ch>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: [PATCH] rt6_probe_deferred: Do not depend on struct ordering

rt6_probe allocates a struct __rt6_probe_work and schedules a work handler rt6_probe_deferred.
But rt6_probe_deferred kfree's the struct work_struct instead of struct __rt6_probe_work.
This works, because struct work_struct is the first element of struct __rt6_probe_work.

Change it to kfree struct __rt6_probe_work to not implicitly depend on
struct work_struct being the first element.

This does not affect the generated code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m@...s.ch>

---

The affected code was introduced in c2f17e827b419918c856131f592df9521e1a38e3

Index: linux/net/ipv6/route.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ linux/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static void rt6_probe_deferred(struct wo
 	addrconf_addr_solict_mult(&work->target, &mcaddr);
 	ndisc_send_ns(work->dev, NULL, &work->target, &mcaddr, NULL);
 	dev_put(work->dev);
-	kfree(w);
+	kfree(work);
 }

 static void rt6_probe(struct rt6_info *rt)

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