Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752853AbdHQOkq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:40:46 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:41389 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857AbdHQOkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:40:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:40:43 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kees Cook Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" Subject: Re: refactoring timers to avoid init_timer*() Message-ID: <20170817144043.GA10717@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 252 Lines: 7 Instea of bloating the timer even more we should kill off the data field eventually, which should give you the same protection. See my proposal and the related discussion here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1397209.html