+/**
+ * bfq_entity_of - get an entity from a node.
+ * @node: the node field of the entity.
+ *
+ * Convert a node pointer to the relative entity.  This is used only
+ * to simplify the logic of some functions and not as the generic
+ * conversion mechanism because, e.g., in the tree walking functions,
+ * the check for a %NULL value would be redundant.
+ */
+static struct bfq_entity *bfq_entity_of(struct rb_node *node)
+{
+	struct bfq_entity *entity = NULL;
+
+	if (node)
+		entity = rb_entry(node, struct bfq_entity, rb_node);
+
+	return entity;
+}

Get rid of pointless wrappers like this, just use rb_entry() in the
caller. It's harmful to the readability of the code to have to lookup
things like this, if it's a list_entry or rb_entry() in the caller you
know exactly what is going on immediately.

-- 
Jens Axboe