[PATCH] soc: soc-dapm: fix two incorrect uses of list iterator

Xiaomeng Tong xiam0nd.tong at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 03:28:48 CEST 2022


On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:31:51 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:21:38PM +0800, Xiaomeng Tong wrote:
> 
> >  		case snd_soc_dapm_pre:
> > -			if (!w->event)
> > +			if (!w->event) {
> >  				list_for_each_entry_safe_continue(w, n, list,
> >  								  power_list);
> > +				break;
> > +			}
> 
> This doesn't make much sense.  The intent here seems to clearly be to
> continue; the loop but this doesn't do that - instead it appears that
> continue doesn't actually do the equivalent of a continue but rather
> skips over an entry.  This should instead be replaced with a plain
> continue statement.
> 

Yes, you are right. Sorry for a slip of the pen in commit message:
should be "to *continue* the outer list_for_each_entry_safe() loop"
not "to break ...".

I have resend a PATCH v2 for the fix as you suggested, and cc you.
Thank you.

> THe naming of _continue() needs fixing I think - it's just asking to be
> a bug.  Fortunately there's very few users.

--
Xiaomeng Tong


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