Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nbd: use list_for_each_entry_safe to make it more consolidated and readable

From: Paul Clements <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:12:24 -0400

Denis Cheng wrote:
> Thus the traverse of the loop may delete nodes, use the safe version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/block/nbd.c |    6 ++----
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> index c129510..86639c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> @@ -237,8 +237,7 @@ error_out:
>  
>  static struct request *nbd_find_request(struct nbd_device *lo, char *handle)
>  {
> -	struct request *req;
> -	struct list_head *tmp;
> +	struct request *req, *n;
>  	struct request *xreq;
>  	int err;
>  
> @@ -249,8 +248,7 @@ static struct request *nbd_find_request(struct nbd_device *lo, char *handle)
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	spin_lock(&lo->queue_lock);
> -	list_for_each(tmp, &lo->queue_head) {
> -		req = list_entry(tmp, struct request, queuelist);
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(req, n, &lo->queue_head, queuelist) {
>  		if (req != xreq)
>  			continue;
>  		list_del_init(&req->queuelist);

Could you name "n" as "tmp" (as in the previous code) so that it's clear 
that's only a temporary variable. Other than that, this looks good.

Thanks,
Paul