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[v2,14/16] xen/xenbus: move to_xenbus_device() to use container_of_const()

Message ID 20230111113018.459199-15-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit c6e8418521a8fd2068ade2c6a1514315c99cc717
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Jan. 11, 2023, 11:30 a.m. UTC
The driver core is changing to pass some pointers as const, so move
to_xenbus_device() to use container_of_const() to handle this change.

to_xenbus_device() now properly keeps the const-ness of the pointer passed
into it, while as before it could be lost.

Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/xen/xenbus.h | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Jürgen Groß Jan. 11, 2023, 12:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On 11.01.23 12:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The driver core is changing to pass some pointers as const, so move
> to_xenbus_device() to use container_of_const() to handle this change.
> 
> to_xenbus_device() now properly keeps the const-ness of the pointer passed
> into it, while as before it could be lost.
> 
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen
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diff --git a/include/xen/xenbus.h b/include/xen/xenbus.h
index eaa932b99d8a..b31f77f9c50c 100644
--- a/include/xen/xenbus.h
+++ b/include/xen/xenbus.h
@@ -96,10 +96,7 @@  struct xenbus_device {
 	unsigned int spurious_threshold;
 };
 
-static inline struct xenbus_device *to_xenbus_device(struct device *dev)
-{
-	return container_of(dev, struct xenbus_device, dev);
-}
+#define to_xenbus_device(__dev)	container_of_const(__dev, struct xenbus_device, dev)
 
 struct xenbus_device_id
 {