[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/6] ALSA: hda: use list macro for parsing on cleanup

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Tue Mar 15 11:54:15 CET 2016


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:00:53AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:57:11 +0100,
> Vinod Koul wrote:
> > 
> > It is always better to use list_for_each_entry_safe() while doing
> > cleanup. So use this instead of open coding this in list in
> > snd_hdac_stream_free_all()
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeeja KP <jeeja.kp at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
> 
> While this change is fine, we shouldn't trust blindly
> list_for_each_safe() as always safe.  It assumes that the list removal
> is done only for the current item.  But it's not always true.  The
> loop in the current code is one of standard idiom in such a case.

Yes thanks for the warning :)


> 
> In anyway, take my ack when Mark applies it:
>   Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>

Will add this for v2

>-- 
~Vinod


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