Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators

[Eduard Zingerman]

On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 12:28 +0800, Kaitao Cheng wrote:
> From: Kaitao Cheng <chengkaitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The safe list iteration helpers require callers to provide a temporary
> cursor even when the cursor is only used internally by the loop. This
> leaves many functions with otherwise unused variables whose only purpose
> is to satisfy the old iterator interface.
> 
> Use the mutable list iteration helpers for those cases. The mutable
> helpers keep the same removal-safe traversal semantics, while allowing
> the temporary cursor to be internal to the macro when the caller does
> not need to observe it.
> 
> Convert list, hlist and llist users under kernel/ where the temporary
> cursor is not used outside the iteration. Keep the explicit cursor form
> where the next entry is still needed by the surrounding code.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kaitao Cheng <chengkaitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Beside the fact that this does not apply,
I don't see a reason why is this needed for BPF sub-tree.

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