Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xen-blkfront: implement safe version ofllist_for_each_entry

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:15:50PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On 07/12/12 21:20, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:21:53PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >> Implement a safe version of llist_for_each_entry, and use it in
> >> blkif_free. Previously grants where freed while iterating the list,
> >> which lead to dereferences when trying to fetch the next item.
> > 
> > Looks like xen-blkfront is the only user of this llist_for_each_entry.
> > 
> > Would it be more prudent to put the macro in the llist.h file?
> 
> I'm not able to find out who is the maintainer of llist, should I just
> CC it's author?

Sure. I CC-ed akpm here to solicit his input as well. Either way I am
OK wit this being in xen-blkfront but it just seems that it could
be useful in the llist file since that is where the non-safe version
resides.
> 
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