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author | Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com> | 2012-12-04 09:21:53 -0500 |
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committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2012-12-17 21:55:56 -0500 |
commit | ebb351cf78ee6bf3262e6b4b6906f456c05e6d5e (patch) | |
tree | 103c6133d51f266b16c8b6f71fddf4992c57dc8f /include | |
parent | 7dc341175af5e7361af81499ea192c7b274b6357 (diff) |
llist/xen-blkfront: implement safe version of llist_for_each_entry
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.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v2: Move the llist_for_each_entry_safe in llist.h]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/llist.h | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/llist.h b/include/linux/llist.h index a5199f6d0e82..d0ab98f73d38 100644 --- a/include/linux/llist.h +++ b/include/linux/llist.h | |||
@@ -125,6 +125,31 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list) | |||
125 | (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) | 125 | (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) |
126 | 126 | ||
127 | /** | 127 | /** |
128 | * llist_for_each_entry_safe - iterate safely against remove over some entries | ||
129 | * of lock-less list of given type. | ||
130 | * @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor. | ||
131 | * @n: another type * to use as a temporary storage. | ||
132 | * @node: the fist entry of deleted list entries. | ||
133 | * @member: the name of the llist_node with the struct. | ||
134 | * | ||
135 | * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed | ||
136 | * safely only after being removed from list, so start with an entry | ||
137 | * instead of list head. This variant allows removal of entries | ||
138 | * as we iterate. | ||
139 | * | ||
140 | * If being used on entries deleted from lock-less list directly, the | ||
141 | * traverse order is from the newest to the oldest added entry. If | ||
142 | * you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must | ||
143 | * reverse the order by yourself before traversing. | ||
144 | */ | ||
145 | #define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member) \ | ||
146 | for ((pos) = llist_entry((node), typeof(*(pos)), member), \ | ||
147 | (n) = (pos)->member.next; \ | ||
148 | &(pos)->member != NULL; \ | ||
149 | (pos) = llist_entry(n, typeof(*(pos)), member), \ | ||
150 | (n) = (&(pos)->member != NULL) ? (pos)->member.next : NULL) | ||
151 | |||
152 | /** | ||
128 | * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty | 153 | * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty |
129 | * @head: the list to test | 154 | * @head: the list to test |
130 | * | 155 | * |