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From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:47:08 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: use tasklet_setup to initialize rx_work_tasklet
To:     Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk>
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        Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:23 AM Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk> wrote:
>
> In commit d3ccc14dfe95 most of the tasklets in this driver was
> updated to the new API. However for the rx_work_tasklet only the
> type of the callback was changed from
>   void _rtl_rx_work(unsigned long data)
> to
>   void _rtl_rx_work(struct tasklet_struct *t).
>
> The initialization of rx_work_tasklet was still open-coded and the
> function pointer just cast into the old type, and hence nothing sets
> rx_work_tasklet.use_callback = true and the callback was still called as
>
>   t->func(t->data);
>
> with uninitialized/zero t->data.
>
> Commit 6b8c7574a5f8 changed the casting of _rtl_rx_work a bit and
> initialized t->data to a pointer to the tasklet cast to an unsigned
> long.
>
> This way calling t->func(t->data) might actually work through all the
> casting, but it still doesn't update the code to use the new tasklet
> API.
>
> Let's use the new tasklet_setup to initialize rx_work_tasklet properly
> and set rx_work_tasklet.use_callback = true so that the callback is
> called as
>
>   t->callback(t);
>
> without all the casting.
>
> Fixes: 6b8c7574a5f8 ("rtlwifi: fix build warning")
> Fixes: d3ccc14dfe95 ("rtlwifi/rtw88: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API")
> Signed-off-by: Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk>

Since the current code works, this could target net-next without Fixes tags.

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>