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ibm_newemac: Fix dangerous struct assumption

Message ID 20090406142710.2d091038@hyperion.delvare
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jean Delvare April 6, 2009, 12:27 p.m. UTC
The ibm_newemac driver includes code which assumes that the
work_struct which is included in every delayed_work is the first
member of that structure. This is currently the case but might change
in the future, so use to_delayed_work() instead, which doesn't make
such an assumption.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Miller April 7, 2009, 12:43 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:27:10 +0200

> The ibm_newemac driver includes code which assumes that the
> work_struct which is included in every delayed_work is the first
> member of that structure. This is currently the case but might change
> in the future, so use to_delayed_work() instead, which doesn't make
> such an assumption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Applied.
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Patch

--- linux-2.6.30-rc0.orig/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c	2009-04-06 11:18:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.30-rc0/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c	2009-04-06 13:29:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@  static int emac_link_differs(struct emac
 static void emac_link_timer(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct emac_instance *dev =
-		container_of((struct delayed_work *)work,
+		container_of(to_delayed_work(work),
 			     struct emac_instance, link_work);
 	int link_poll_interval;