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

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Message-Id: <20150208.130310.111499727183236845.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 08 Feb 2015 13:03:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	m@...s.ch
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt6_probe_deferred: Do not depend on struct ordering

From: Michael Büsch <m@...s.ch>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 10:14:07 +0100

> 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>

Applied.
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