On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 17:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list > pointer to all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() > and from_timer() to pass the timer pointer explicitly. This requires > adding a pointer back to the sta_info since container_of() can't > resolve the sta_info. The subject seems to be lacking something ... :-) > This requires commit 686fef928bba ("timer: Prepare to change timer > callback argument type") in v4.14-rc3, but should be otherwise > stand-alone. I still can't apply that because that's not in net-next right now. > static inline void mesh_plink_timer_set(struct sta_info *sta, u32 > timeout) > { > sta->mesh->plink_timer.expires = jiffies + > msecs_to_jiffies(timeout); > - sta->mesh->plink_timer.data = (unsigned long) sta; > - sta->mesh->plink_timer.function = mesh_plink_timer; > + sta->mesh->plink_sta = sta; > + sta->mesh->plink_timer.function = > (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)mesh_plink_timer; > sta->mesh->plink_timeout = timeout; > add_timer(&sta->mesh->plink_timer); Wouldn't it be better to convert this to timer_setup() now? That add_timer() should probably also be mod_timer() anyway? > diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c > index 69615016d5bf..5e5de9455e4e 100644 > --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c > +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c > @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ struct sta_info *sta_info_alloc(struct > ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, > spin_lock_init(&sta->mesh->plink_lock); > if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif) && > !sdata->u.mesh.user_mpm) > - init_timer(&sta->mesh->plink_timer); > + timer_setup(&sta->mesh->plink_timer, NULL, > 0); > sta->mesh->nonpeer_pm = NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE; > } You just have to make mesh_plink_timer() non-static, put a prototype into mesh.h and then you can use the proper timer_setup() here with the function? Also, the sta->mesh->plink_sta assignment should be here I'd say, no point rewriting it all the time. I guess you were shooting for minimal, and I suppose we can do the cleanups later too ... johannes