container_of: remove container_of_safe()

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.

Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman committed 2022-10-25 10:27:54 +02:00
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@@ -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 */