Re: [PATCH] Simplify some code to use the container_of() macro.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 03 2007 - 19:50:52 EST


On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:55:22 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ find_appropriate_src(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple,
>
> read_lock_bh(&nf_nat_lock);
> list_for_each_entry(nat, &bysource[h], info.bysource) {
> - ct = (struct nf_conn *)((char *)nat - offsetof(struct nf_conn, data));
> + ct = container_of(nat, struct nf_conn, data);

This one isn't right. Please always carefully compile-test these things.
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