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R. Silva" , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, Rasmus Villemoes , dri-devel , Cristiano Giuffrida , amd-gfx list , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, linux-arch , CIFS , KVM list , 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 , Brian Johannesmeyer , Nathan Chancellor , linux-fsdevel , 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, linux-wireless , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux F2FS Dev Mailing List , tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Crypto Mailing List , dma , linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev , Mike Rapoport Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] treewide: remove using list iterator after loop body as a ptr Message-ID: References: <20220228110822.491923-3-jakobkoschel@gmail.com> <2e4e95d6-f6c9-a188-e1cd-b1eae465562a@amd.com> <4B1AFAD9-C1B3-499C-945A-C259361ABA8C@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B1AFAD9-C1B3-499C-945A-C259361ABA8C@gmail.com> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20220301_095807_139636_029317D4 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 32.82 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "Linux-mediatek" Errors-To: linux-mediatek-bounces+linux-mediatek=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 06:40:04PM +0100, Jakob Koschel wrote: > > > > On 1. Mar 2022, at 18:36, Greg KH wrote: > > > > 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. > > Very much appreciated! > > There will probably be some cases that do not match one of the pattern > we already discussed and need separate attention. > > I was planning to start with one subsystem and adjust the coming ones > according to the feedback gather there instead of posting all of them > in one go. That seems wise. Feel free to use USB as a testing ground for this if you want to :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Linux-mediatek mailing list Linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mediatek