linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of

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Date:   Thu,  1 Dec 2022 20:30:55 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()

Instead of rolling our own const-checking logic, use the newly
introduced container_of_const() to handle it all for us automatically.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/device.h | 22 ++--------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 84ae52de6746..8ad2cd21b335 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -680,26 +680,8 @@ struct device_link {
 	bool supplier_preactivated; /* Owned by consumer probe. */
 };
 
-static inline struct device *__kobj_to_dev(struct kobject *kobj)
-{
-	return container_of(kobj, struct device, kobj);
-}
-
-static inline const struct device *__kobj_to_dev_const(const struct kobject *kobj)
-{
-	return container_of(kobj, const struct device, kobj);
-}
-
-/*
- * container_of() will happily take a const * and spit back a non-const * as it
- * is just doing pointer math.  But we want to be a bit more careful in the
- * driver code, so manually force any const * of a kobject to also be a const *
- * to a device.
- */
-#define kobj_to_dev(kobj)					\
-	_Generic((kobj),					\
-		 const struct kobject *: __kobj_to_dev_const,	\
-		 struct kobject *: __kobj_to_dev)(kobj)
+#define kobj_to_dev(__kobj)	\
+	container_of_const(struct kobject, __kobj, struct device, kobj)
 
 /**
  * device_iommu_mapped - Returns true when the device DMA is translated
-- 
2.38.1