RE: [PATCH 2/6] treewide: remove using list iterator after loop body as a ptr

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:04:06 +0000, David Laight
<David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that it would be better to make any alternate loop macro
> just set the variable to NULL on the loop exit.
> That is easier to code for and the compiler might be persuaded to
> not redo the test.

No, that would lead to a NULL dereference.

The problem is the mis-use of iterator outside the loop on exit, and
the iterator will be the HEAD's container_of pointer which pointers
to a type-confused struct. Sidenote: The *mis-use* here refers to
mistakely access to other members of the struct, instead of the
list_head member which acutally is the valid HEAD.

IOW, you would dereference a (NULL + offset_of_member) address here.

Please remind me if i missed something, thanks.

> OTOH there may be alternative definitions that can be used to get
> the compiler (or other compiler-like tools) to detect broken code.
> Even if the definition can't possibly generate a working kerrnel.

The "list_for_each_entry_inside(pos, type, head, member)" way makes
the iterator invisiable outside the loop, and would be catched by
compiler if use-after-loop things happened.

Can you share your "alternative definitions" details? thanks!

--
Xiaomeng Tong



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