[PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] llist: add interface to check if a node is on a list.

[Artem Dinaburg]

From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d6b3358a2813bb14791259a2227d9af1e7019ca0 ]

With list.h lists, it is easy to test if a node is on a list, providing
it was initialised and that it is removed with list_del_init().

This patch provides similar functionality for llist.h lists.

 init_llist_node()
marks a node as being not-on-any-list be setting the ->next pointer to
the node itself.
 llist_on_list()
tests if the node is on any list.
 llist_del_first_init()
remove the first element from a llist, and marks it as being off-list.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi,

Please consider this backport of the prerequisite for CVE-2025-38264 to
6.6.y.

The code changes are identical to upstream.

The complete fix is already present in 6.12.y, 6.18.y and 7.2.y.

Build-tested only as part of a cumulative 6.6.y series: x86_64 objects
(allmodconfig, CONFIG_WERROR=y); no runtime testing.

Thanks,
Artem Dinaburg

 include/linux/llist.h |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/llist.h b/include/linux/llist.h
index 85bda2d02d65be05f9fad9c52f60b49ec483d2a7..dcb91e3bac1ccce7c8327cbeb42462f5eaeb79be 100644
--- a/include/linux/llist.h
+++ b/include/linux/llist.h
@@ -73,6 +73,33 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list)
 	list->first = NULL;
 }
 
+/**
+ * init_llist_node - initialize lock-less list node
+ * @node:	the node to be initialised
+ *
+ * In cases where there is a need to test if a node is on
+ * a list or not, this initialises the node to clearly
+ * not be on any list.
+ */
+static inline void init_llist_node(struct llist_node *node)
+{
+	node->next = node;
+}
+
+/**
+ * llist_on_list - test if a lock-list list node is on a list
+ * @node:	the node to test
+ *
+ * When a node is on a list the ->next pointer will be NULL or
+ * some other node.  It can never point to itself.  We use that
+ * in init_llist_node() to record that a node is not on any list,
+ * and here to test whether it is on any list.
+ */
+static inline bool llist_on_list(const struct llist_node *node)
+{
+	return node->next != node;
+}
+
 /**
  * llist_entry - get the struct of this entry
  * @ptr:	the &struct llist_node pointer.
@@ -249,6 +276,21 @@ static inline struct llist_node *__llist_del_all(struct llist_head *head)
 
 extern struct llist_node *llist_del_first(struct llist_head *head);
 
+/**
+ * llist_del_first_init - delete first entry from lock-list and mark is as being off-list
+ * @head:	the head of lock-less list to delete from.
+ *
+ * This behave the same as llist_del_first() except that llist_init_node() is called
+ * on the returned node so that llist_on_list() will report false for the node.
+ */
+static inline struct llist_node *llist_del_first_init(struct llist_head *head)
+{
+	struct llist_node *n = llist_del_first(head);
+
+	if (n)
+		init_llist_node(n);
+	return n;
+}
 struct llist_node *llist_reverse_order(struct llist_node *head);
 
 #endif /* LLIST_H */