Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:36:14 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] isdn/gigaset: Convert timers to use timer_setup() |
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:15 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote: > From: Kees Cook >> Sent: 06 October 2017 20:40 > ... >> I'm in no rush for any specific change. There are about 900 call sites >> I'm making my way through, about 2/3rd are pretty trivial, and the >> less obvious is what I've started sending out now, since I expect some >> will need some more careful review. > > Is it worth adding a structure that contains a timer and an extra 'long' > than can be used to maintain the existing API logic for the 'difficult' > cases?
I didn't want to have this available in the general case, since I'd like to get all the conversions actually finished. There are a couple very special cases that need this, and they have one-off structs that do this.
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Pixel Security
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