linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: qedf: Drop unnecessary NULL checks after container

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Date:   Fri, 14 May 2021 22:42:23 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Saurav Kashyap <skashyap@...vell.com>,
        Javed Hasan <jhasan@...vell.com>,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: qedf: Drop unnecessary NULL checks after
 container_of


Guenter,

> The result of container_of() operations is never NULL unless the
> embedded element is the first element of the structure, which is not
> the case here.  The NULL checks are therefore unnecessary and
> misleading. Remove them.

Applied to 5.14/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering