Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xen-blkfront: implement safe versionof llist_for_each_entry

From: Roger Pau Monné
Date: Mon Dec 10 2012 - 12:05:13 EST


On 10/12/12 16:15, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:15:50PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> On 07/12/12 21:20, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:21:53PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>>> Implement a safe version of llist_for_each_entry, and use it in
>>>> blkif_free. Previously grants where freed while iterating the list,
>>>> which lead to dereferences when trying to fetch the next item.
>>>
>>> Looks like xen-blkfront is the only user of this llist_for_each_entry.
>>>
>>> Would it be more prudent to put the macro in the llist.h file?
>>
>> I'm not able to find out who is the maintainer of llist, should I just
>> CC it's author?
>
> Sure. I CC-ed akpm here to solicit his input as well. Either way I am
> OK wit this being in xen-blkfront but it just seems that it could
> be useful in the llist file since that is where the non-safe version
> resides.

I'm going to resend this series with llist_for_each_entry_safe added to
llist.h in a separated patch. I wouldn't like to delay this series
because we cannot get llist_for_each_entry_safe added to llist.h, that's
why I've added it to blkfront in the first place.

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