Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] treewide: remove using list iterator after loop body as a ptr

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:20:03 +0100

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:08:18PM +0100, Jakob Koschel wrote:
> If the list does not contain the expected element, the value of
> list_for_each_entry() iterator will not point to a valid structure.
> To avoid type confusion in such case, the list iterator
> scope will be limited to list_for_each_entry() loop.
> 
> In preparation to limiting scope of a list iterator to the list traversal
> loop, use a dedicated pointer to point to the found element.
> Determining if an element was found is then simply checking if
> the pointer is != NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c       |  6 +++--
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c    | 17 ++++++++-----
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c       | 38 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>  drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c        | 22 ++++++++++------
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/max3420_udc.c | 11 +++++---
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/tegra-xudc.c  | 11 +++++---
>  drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3_gadget.c       | 11 +++++---
>  drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c       | 11 +++++---
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c        | 11 +++++---
>  9 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

The drivers/usb/ portion of this patch should be in patch 1/X, right?

Also, you will have to split these up per-subsystem so that the
different subsystem maintainers can take these in their trees.

thanks,

greg k-h