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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-24 14:39:33 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-25 10:27:54 +0200
commit848dba781f1951636c966c9f3a6a41a5b2f8b572 (patch)
treeab18ca1078f8660cb669d1566af4b32540025740 /include/linux/container_of.h
parent59789f3418dd3c0a187490d49e900a59a5c8d732 (diff)
container_of: remove container_of_safe()
It came in from a staging driver that has been long removed from the tree, and there are no in-kernel users of the macro, and it's very dubious if anyone should ever use this thing, so just remove it entirely. Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024123933.3331116-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/container_of.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/container_of.h16
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/container_of.h b/include/linux/container_of.h
index 2f4944b791b8..a6f242137b11 100644
--- a/include/linux/container_of.h
+++ b/include/linux/container_of.h
@@ -21,20 +21,4 @@
"pointer type mismatch in container_of()"); \
((type *)(__mptr - offsetof(type, member))); })
-/**
- * container_of_safe - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
- * @ptr: the pointer to the member.
- * @type: the type of the container struct this is embedded in.
- * @member: the name of the member within the struct.
- *
- * If IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ptr), ptr is returned unchanged.
- */
-#define container_of_safe(ptr, type, member) ({ \
- void *__mptr = (void *)(ptr); \
- static_assert(__same_type(*(ptr), ((type *)0)->member) || \
- __same_type(*(ptr), void), \
- "pointer type mismatch in container_of_safe()"); \
- IS_ERR_OR_NULL(__mptr) ? ERR_CAST(__mptr) : \
- ((type *)(__mptr - offsetof(type, member))); })
-
#endif /* _LINUX_CONTAINER_OF_H */