From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:58:27 +0200 > list_for_each_safe is able to handle an empty list. > The only effect of avoiding the loop is not initializing the > index variable. > Drop list_empty tests in cases where these variables are not > used. > > The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) ... > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx> Applied to net-next.