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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Problems in list.h macros?
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:31:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <030801c4abeb$c9316ba0$294b82ce@stuartm> (raw)

I am referring to a stock 2.4.27's linux/list.h.

1: list_for_each(_entry)_safe() calls seem not to be as safe as they
are implied to be. They seem to be only actually safe *iff* a
list_del() is the only operation performed on the list entry. If pos
is freed after a list_del, aren't you toast? If n has its pointers
modified, say by a list_add() to a different list, don't you end up
at the new list instead of the original list? Shouldn't this be noted
in the macro comments?

..Stu


             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-06 21:31 Stuart MacDonald [this message]
2004-10-06 22:38 ` Possible Spam:Re: Problems in list.h macros? Peter W. Morreale

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