On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 12:18 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 02:12:56PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > These are similar macros so use the normal kernel one. > > > > As well, there are odd games being played with casting a plist to > > a union recv_frame by using LIST_CONTAINOR. Just use a direct cast > > to union recv_frame instead. [] > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c > > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c [] > > @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ union recv_frame *_rtw_alloc_recvframe(struct __queue > > *pfree_recv_queue) > > > > plist = get_next(phead); > > > > - precvframe = LIST_CONTAINOR(plist, union recv_frame, u); > > + precvframe = (union recv_frame *)plist; > > No, you are "assuming" that the list_head is going to stay the first > object of this structure, and what if it isn't? > > Just use container_of, that way at least you get the type safeness of > the call, and if something changes in the future, you don't instantly > break the code everywhere without knowing it.
It's a named union u and it's exactly at the beginning. It's unlikely to change. The container_of macro doesn't work here as there it has a BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG and there are pointer type mismatches on those uses. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
