linux/include
Lukas Wunner 125450f814 PCI: hotplug: Embed hotplug_slot
When the PCI hotplug core and its first user, cpqphp, were introduced in
February 2002 with historic commit a8a2069f432c, cpqphp allocated a slot
struct for its internal use plus a hotplug_slot struct to be registered
with the hotplug core and linked the two with pointers:
https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/a8a2069f432c

Nowadays, the predominant pattern in the tree is to embed ("subclass")
such structures in one another and cast to the containing struct with
container_of().  But it wasn't until July 2002 that container_of() was
introduced with historic commit ec4f214232cf:
https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/ec4f214232cf

pnv_php, introduced in 2016, did the right thing and embedded struct
hotplug_slot in its internal struct pnv_php_slot, but all other drivers
cargo-culted cpqphp's design and linked separate structs with pointers.

Embedding structs is preferrable to linking them with pointers because
it requires fewer allocations, thereby reducing overhead and simplifying
error paths.  Casting an embedded struct to the containing struct
becomes a cheap subtraction rather than a dereference.  And having fewer
pointers reduces the risk of them pointing nowhere either accidentally
or due to an attack.

Convert all drivers to embed struct hotplug_slot in their internal slot
struct.  The "private" pointer in struct hotplug_slot thereby becomes
unused, so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>  # drivers/pci/hotplug/rpa*
Acked-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>        # drivers/pci/hotplug/s390*
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> # drivers/platform/x86
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Scott Murray <scott@spiteful.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Oliver OHalloran <oliveroh@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
2018-09-18 17:52:15 -05:00
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acpi ACPICA: Update version to 20180810 2018-08-14 23:49:13 +02:00
asm-generic asm-generic: io: Fix ioport_map() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP && CONFIG_INDIRECT_PIO 2018-09-14 09:49:21 +01:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: scatterwalk - remove scatterwalk_samebuf() 2018-08-03 18:06:04 +08:00
drm drm pull for 4.19-rc1 2018-08-15 17:39:07 -07:00
dt-bindings ARM: SoC: late updates 2018-08-25 14:12:36 -07:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Add core support for Group0 SGIs 2018-08-12 12:06:34 +01:00
linux PCI: hotplug: Embed hotplug_slot 2018-09-18 17:52:15 -05:00
math-emu
media - New Drivers 2018-08-20 15:38:44 -07:00
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2018-09-11 21:17:30 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove long deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() function 2018-08-18 12:30:42 -07:00
ras
rdma Second merge window update 2018-08-23 15:34:48 -07:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20180815 2018-08-15 22:06:26 -07:00
soc
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.19 2018-08-13 12:12:31 +02:00
target scsi: target: add session removal function 2018-08-02 15:29:31 -04:00
trace Merge branch 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-08-24 13:19:27 -07:00
uapi perf/UAPI: Clearly mark __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY as internal use 2018-09-10 10:03:02 +02:00
video fbdev changes for v4.19: 2018-08-23 15:44:58 -07:00
xen xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages 2018-09-14 08:51:10 -04:00