purge_persistent_grants() is scanning the grants list for persistent grants being no longer in use by the backend. When having found such a grant, it will be set to "invalid" and pushed to the tail of the list. Instead of pushing it directly to the end of the list, add it first to a temporary list, avoiding to scan those entries again in the main list traversal. After having finished the scan, append the temporary list to the grant list. Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index aa996b637d0b..378262ec47ae 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -2533,6 +2533,7 @@ static void purge_persistent_grants(struct blkfront_info *info) for_each_rinfo(info, rinfo, i) { struct grant *gnt_list_entry, *tmp; + LIST_HEAD(grants); spin_lock_irqsave(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags); @@ -2550,9 +2551,11 @@ static void purge_persistent_grants(struct blkfront_info *info) list_del(&gnt_list_entry->node); rinfo->persistent_gnts_c--; gnt_list_entry->gref = GRANT_INVALID_REF; - list_add_tail(&gnt_list_entry->node, &rinfo->grants); + list_add_tail(&gnt_list_entry->node, &grants); } + list_splice_tail(&grants, &rinfo->grants); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags); } } -- 2.34.1