Re: [PATCH 5/9] usb: xhci: use list_for_each_entry

From: Mathias Nyman
Date: Mon Dec 21 2015 - 08:04:04 EST


On 18.12.2015 20:30, Julia Lawall wrote:
Geliang,

Please check whether it is acceptable that last_unlinked_td point to the
dummy entry at th beginning of the list, in the case where the
list_for_each_entry loop runs out normally.

It seems that you have sent a bunch of these patches. Please recheck them
all to see if they really follow the semantics of list_for_each_entry
properly. If particular, you should not normally use the index variable
after leaving the loop, unless it is guaranteed that the exit from the
loop was via a break.


Julia is correct, we can't use list_for_each_entry() here as cur_td would end up
pointing to list head, and we really need it to point to the last entry in the list at that point.

old:
- list_for_each(entry, &ep->cancelled_td_list) {
- cur_td = list_entry(entry, struct xhci_td, cancelled_td_list);
cur_td_will point to last element in list. "entry" will point to head, but is on longer used.

new:
+ list_for_each_entry(cur_td, &ep->cancelled_td_list, cancelled_td_list) {
cur_td will point to head of list.

This is important as newly canceled TDs can be added to the tail of the list while
looping through and returning the canceled TDs. We want to make sure we
only return and delete the TDs up to the point we have handled them on the ring.

(code continues with: last_unlinked_td = cur_td;)

Thanks Julia for spotting this

-Mathias




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