Re: [PATCH for-next v2 2/3] IB/verbs: add helper function rdma_udata_to_drv_context

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:01:06PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>  * If udata is not NULL this cannot fail. Otherwise a NULL udata will result
>  * in a NULL ucontext pointer. Callers can rely on !NULL ucontext to show the
>  * op is being called as part of a user system call.
>  */
> #define rdma_udata_to_drv_context(udata, drv_dev_struct, member)	\
> 	(udata ? container_of(container_of(udata, struct uverbs_attr_bundle,   \
> 					   driver_udata)                       \
> 				      ->context,                               \
> 			      drv_dev_struct, member) :                        \
> 		 (drv_dev_struct *)NULL)
> 
> And get rid of the rdma_get_ucontext helper function, umem can just
> inspect udata->context itself and fail with EIO if NULL.

And what exactly is the benefit over opencoding it?  Yes, it'll save
about 2 lines of source per caller, but it will also make the code
basically unreadable without looking at the defintion of
rdma_udata_to_drv_context.



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