Kees, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This is the infrastructure changes to prepare the tasklet API for > conversion to passing the tasklet struct as the callback argument instead > of an arbitrary unsigned long. The first patch details why this is useful > (it's the same rationale as the timer_struct changes from a bit ago: > less abuse during memory corruption attacks, more in line with existing > ways of doing things in the kernel, save a little space in struct, > etc). Notably, the existing tasklet API use is much less messy, so there > is less to clean up. > > It's not clear to me which tree this should go through... Greg since it > starts with a USB clean-up, -tip for timer or interrupt, or if I should > just carry it. I'm open to suggestions, but if I don't hear otherwise, > I'll just carry it. > > My goal is to have this merged for v5.9-rc1 so that during the v5.10 > development cycle the new API will be available. The entire tree of > changes is here[1] currently, but to split it up by maintainer the > infrastructure changes need to be landed first. > > Review and Acks appreciated! :) I'd rather see tasklets vanish from the planet completely, but that's going to be a daring feat. So, grudgingly: Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
