[PATCH] container_of: remove container_of_safe()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Oct 24 2022 - 12:56:05 EST


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.

Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/container_of.h | 16 ----------------
1 file changed, 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 */
--
2.38.1