linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] serial: max3100: Extract to_max3100

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:55:55 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@...onoff.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] serial: max3100: Extract to_max3100_port() helper
 macro

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 09:17:28AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 09. 04. 24, 16:45, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Instead of using container_of() explicitly, introduce a helper macro.
> > This saves a lot of lines of code.

..

> > +#define to_max3100_port(port)	container_of(port, struct max3100_port, port)
> 
> This is wrong. If you pass something other than "port" to to_max3100_port(),
> the third arg of container_of() will explode.

Then don't do that :-)

> Use an inline to avoid mistakes like this.

Sure, thanks for catching this. Should I send an update to prevent this from
happening?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko