scsi: core: Introduce the scsi_cmd_to_rq() function
[ Upstream commit 51f3a478 ] The 'request' member of struct scsi_cmnd is superfluous. The struct request and struct scsi_cmnd data structures are adjacent and hence the request pointer can be derived easily from a scsi_cmnd pointer. Introduce a helper function that performs that conversion in a type-safe way. This patch is the first step towards removing the request member from struct scsi_cmnd. Making that change has the following advantages: - This is a performance optimization since adding an offset to a pointer takes less time than dereferencing a pointer. - struct scsi_cmnd becomes smaller. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809230355.8186-2-bvanassche@acm.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Stable-dep-of: 19597cad ("scsi: qla2xxx: Fix system crash due to bad pointer access") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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