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R. Silva" , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, Rasmus Villemoes , dri-devel , Cristiano Giuffrida , amd-gfx list , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, linux-arch , CIFS , linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-scsi , linux-rdma , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, "Bos, H.J." , Jason Gunthorpe , intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, Dan Carpenter , Linux Media Mailing List , Kees Cook , Arnd Bergman , Linux PM , intel-gfx , linuxppc-dev , Brian Johannesmeyer , Nathan Chancellor , dma , Christophe JAILLET , v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-tegra , Thomas Gleixner , Andy Shevchenko , Linux ARM , linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, linux-block , Netdev , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux F2FS Dev Mailing List , tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Crypto Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= , Mike Rapoport X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 12:28:15PM +0100, Jakob Koschel wrote: > > > > On 1. Mar 2022, at 01:41, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 1:47 PM Jakob Koschel wrote: > >> > >> The goal of this is to get compiler warnings right? This would indeed be great. > > > > Yes, so I don't mind having a one-time patch that has been gathered > > using some automated checker tool, but I don't think that works from a > > long-term maintenance perspective. > > > > So if we have the basic rule being "don't use the loop iterator after > > the loop has finished, because it can cause all kinds of subtle > > issues", then in _addition_ to fixing the existing code paths that > > have this issue, I really would want to (a) get a compiler warning for > > future cases and (b) make it not actually _work_ for future cases. > > > > Because otherwise it will just happen again. > > > >> Changing the list_for_each_entry() macro first will break all of those cases > >> (e.g. the ones using 'list_entry_is_head()). > > > > So I have no problems with breaking cases that we basically already > > have a patch for due to your automated tool. There were certainly > > more than a handful, but it didn't look _too_ bad to just make the > > rule be "don't use the iterator after the loop". > > > > Of course, that's just based on that patch of yours. Maybe there are a > > ton of other cases that your patch didn't change, because they didn't > > match your trigger case, so I may just be overly optimistic here. > > Based on the coccinelle script there are ~480 cases that need fixing > in total. I'll now finish all of them and then split them by > submodules as Greg suggested and repost a patch set per submodule. > Sounds good? Sounds good to me! If you need help carving these up and maintaining them over time as different subsystem maintainers accept/ignore them, just let me know. Doing large patchsets like this can be tough without a lot of experience. thanks, greg k-h