The comparison is always true and the compiler optimizes it out anyway.
Milan offered additional context relative to the original commit
784aae735d ("dm: add name and uuid to sysfs") which introduced the code:
"I think it is just relict of some experiments before I committed this
simple embedded sysfs kobj handling".
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
return &md->kobj;
}
-/*
- * struct mapped_device should not be exported outside of dm.c
- * so use this check to verify that kobj is part of md structure
- */
struct mapped_device *dm_get_from_kobject(struct kobject *kobj)
{
struct mapped_device *md;
md = container_of(kobj, struct mapped_device, kobj);
- if (&md->kobj != kobj)
- return NULL;
if (test_bit(DMF_FREEING, &md->flags) ||
dm_deleting_md(md))