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Fixup container_of() usage

PATCH In review Alexey Dobriyan 2 participants 2 messages Jan 8, 2008 SuperH

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PATCH 4/4 Fixup container_of() usage

Using "attr" twice is not OK, because it effectively prohibits such container_of() on variables not named "attr".

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 arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c    |    2 +-
 drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c +1 -1
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ struct sq_sysfs_attr {
 	ssize_t (*store)(const char *buf, size_t count);
 };
 
-#define to_sq_sysfs_attr(attr)	container_of(attr, struct sq_sysfs_attr, attr)
+#define to_sq_sysfs_attr(a)	container_of(a, struct sq_sysfs_attr, attr)
 
 static ssize_t sq_sysfs_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
 			     char *buf)
drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c +1 -1
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct lguest_device {
 /* Since the virtio infrastructure hands us a pointer to the virtio_device all
  * the time, it helps to have a curt macro to get a pointer to the struct
  * lguest_device it's enclosed in.  */
-#define to_lgdev(vdev) container_of(vdev, struct lguest_device, vdev)
+#define to_lgdev(vd) container_of(vd, struct lguest_device, vdev)
 
 /*D:130
  * Device configurations
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Quoted 4 lines · On Tuesday 08 January 2008 19:46:29 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

Using "attr" twice is not OK, because it effectively prohibits such container_of() on variables not named "attr".

Thanks, nice catch. Took me a while to understand that you meant "you can't use to_sq_sysfs_attr() on a variable not named attr".