Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ashmem: remove usage of list iterator after the loop body

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:39:34PM +0200, Jakob Koschel wrote:
> In preparation to limit the scope of a list iterator to the list
> traversal loop, use a dedicated pointer to point to the found element
> [1].
> 
> Before, the code implicitly used the head when no element was found
> when using &pos->list. Since the new variable is only set if an
> element was found, the head needs to be used explicitly if the
> variable is NULL.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgRr_D8CB-D9Kg-c=EHreAsk5SqXPwr9Y7k9sA6cWXJ6w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

What tree did you make this against?  This file is no longer in Linus's
tree.

thanks,

greg k-h