linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/17] staging: lustre: add container_of

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Message-ID: <20180423131648.GA13997@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:16:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] staging: lustre: add container_of_safe()

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:26:48PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> Luster has a container_of0() function which is similar to
> container_of() but passes an IS_ERR_OR_NULL() pointer through
> unchanged.
> This could be generally useful: bcache at last has a similar function.
> 
> Naming is hard, but the precedent set by hlist_entry_safe() suggests
> a _safe suffix might be most consistent.
> 
> So add container_of_safe() to kernel.h, and replace all occurrences of
> container_of0() with one of
>   - list_first_entry, list_next_entry, when that is a better fit,
>   - container_of(), when the pointer is used as a validpointer in
>     surrounding code,
>   - container_of_safe() when there is no obviously better alternative.

I'm loath to add a kernel.h define for a staging driver, but this does
seem sane.  Nice work.

greg k-h