Re: [PATCH] block: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:55:28PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 07:21:35AM +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:09 AM James Bottomley
> > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 21:54 +0530, Allen wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > Since both threads seem to have petered out, let me suggest in
> > > > > > > kernel.h:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > #define cast_out(ptr, container, member) \
> > > > > > >     container_of(ptr, typeof(*container), member)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It does what you want, the argument order is the same as
> > > > > > > container_of with the only difference being you name the
> > > > > > > containing structure instead of having to specify its type.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Not to incessantly bike shed on the naming, but I don't like
> > > > > > cast_out, it's not very descriptive. And it has connotations of
> > > > > > getting rid of something, which isn't really true.
> > > > >
> > > > > Um, I thought it was exactly descriptive: you're casting to the
> > > > > outer container.  I thought about following the C++ dynamic casting
> > > > > style, so out_cast(), but that seemed a bit pejorative.  What about
> > > > > outer_cast()?
> > > > >
> > > > > > FWIW, I like the from_ part of the original naming, as it has
> > > > > > some clues as to what is being done here. Why not just
> > > > > > from_container()? That should immediately tell people what it
> > > > > > does without having to look up the implementation, even before
> > > > > > this becomes a part of the accepted coding norm.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not opposed to container_from() but it seems a little less
> > > > > descriptive than outer_cast() but I don't really care.  I always
> > > > > have to look up container_of() when I'm using it so this would just
> > > > > be another macro of that type ...
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >  So far we have a few which have been suggested as replacement
> > > > for from_tasklet()
> > > >
> > > > - out_cast() or outer_cast()
> > > > - from_member().
> > > > - container_from() or from_container()
> > > >
> > > > from_container() sounds fine, would trimming it a bit work? like
> > > > from_cont().
> > >
> > > I'm fine with container_from().  It's the same form as container_of()
> > > and I think we need urgent agreement to not stall everything else so
> > > the most innocuous name is likely to get the widest acceptance.
> > 
> > Kees,
> > 
> >   Will you be  sending the newly proposed API to Linus? I have V2
> > which uses container_from()
> > ready to be sent out.
> 
> I liked that James swapped the first two arguments so that it matches
> container_of().  Plus it's nice that when you have:
> 
> 	struct whatever *foo = container_from(ptr, foo, member);
> 
> Then it means that "ptr == &foo->member".

I'm a bit stalled right now -- the merge window was keeping me busy, and
this week is the Linux Plumbers Conference. This is on my list, but I
haven't gotten back around to it. If you want, feel free to send the
container_from() patch; you might be able to unblock this faster than me
right now. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook