How to get the hci_dev from an adv instance's work struct in a linked list?

Hi!

I got quite far today refactoring from

struct hci_dev { ... struct adv_info adv_instance; ... };

to

struct hci_dev { ... struct list_head adv_instances; ... };

But in the end I got stuck on refactoring the adv timeout callback. Originally it looked like this:

static void adv_timeout_expired(struct work_struct *work) {
struct hci_dev *hdev = container_of(work, struct hci_dev,

                                      adv_instance.timeout_exp.work);

...
}

But now I would have to construct a pointer to the hci_dev struct from a list entry:

static void adv_timeout_expired(struct work_struct *work) {
struct adv_info *adv_instance = container_of(work, struct adv_info,

                                               timeout_exp.work);

...
}

I couldn't find a way to get the list head of the adv info list entry so that I could retrieve its containing hci_dev structure, though.

How would I construct the required hci_dev struct from the work pointer in this case? Any ideas?

Florian
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I got quite far today refactoring from

struct hci_dev { ... struct adv_info adv_instance; ... };

to

struct hci_dev { ... struct list_head adv_instances; ... };

But in the end I got stuck on refactoring the adv timeout callback. Originally it looked like this:

static void adv_timeout_expired(struct work_struct *work)

{
   struct hci_dev *hdev = container_of(work, struct hci_dev,
                                       adv_instance.timeout_exp.work);
   ...
}

But now I would have to construct a pointer to the hci_dev struct from a list entry:

static void adv_timeout_expired(struct work_struct *work)

{
   struct adv_info *adv_instance = container_of(work, struct adv_info,
                                                timeout_exp.work);
   ...
}

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I couldn't find a way to get the list head of the adv info list entry so that I could retrieve its containing hci_dev structure, though.

Once simple solution is to add a struct hci_dev pointer to struct adv_info. Once you get the pointer to the instance then you can obtain the hci_dev pointer that way.