From: Matthew Wilcox

Sent: 28 February 2022 20:16

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:10:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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We can do

        typeof(pos) pos

in the 'for ()' loop, and never use __iter at all.

That means that inside the for-loop, we use a _different_ 'pos' than outside.

Then we can never use -Wshadow ;-(  I'd love to be able to turn it on;
it catches real bugs.

quoted

+#define list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)					\
+	for (typeof(pos) pos = list_first_entry(head, typeof(*pos), member);	\
+	     !list_entry_is_head(pos, head, member);	\
 	     pos = list_next_entry(pos, member))

Actually can't you use 'pos' to temporarily hold the address of 'member'.
Something like:
	for (pos = (void *)head; \
		pos ? ((pos = (void *)pos - offsetof(member)), 1) : 0; \
		pos = (void *)pos->next)
So that 'pos' is NULL if the loop terminates.
No pointers outside structures are generated.
Probably need to kill list_entry_is_head() - or it just checks for NULL.

	David

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