The patch titled Subject: rapidio: remove unnecessary use of list iterator has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rapidio-remove-unnecessary-use-of-list-iterator.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rapidio-remove-unnecessary-use-of-list-iterator.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rapidio-remove-unnecessary-use-of-list-iterator.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: rapidio: remove unnecessary use of list iterator req->map is set in the valid case and always equals 'map' if the break was hit. It therefore is unnecessary to use the list iterator variable and the use of 'map' can be replaced with req->map. This is done in preparation to limit the scope of a list iterator to the list traversal loop [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YhdfEIwI4EdtHdym@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220319203344.2547702-1-jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Brian Johannesmeyer" <bjohannesmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Cristiano Giuffrida <c.giuffrida@xxxxx> Cc: "Bos, H.J." <h.j.bos@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c~rapidio-remove-unnecessary-use-of-list-iterator +++ a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ rio_dma_transfer(struct file *filp, u32 goto err_req; } - if (xfer->length + xfer->offset > map->size) { + if (xfer->length + xfer->offset > req->map->size) { ret = -EINVAL; goto err_req; } @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ rio_dma_transfer(struct file *filp, u32 } sg_set_buf(req->sgt.sgl, - map->virt_addr + (baddr - map->phys_addr) + + req->map->virt_addr + (baddr - req->map->phys_addr) + xfer->offset, xfer->length); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-replace-usage-of-found-with-dedicated-list-iterator-variable.patch ocfs2-remove-usage-of-list-iterator-variable-after-the-loop-body.patch rapidio-remove-unnecessary-use-of-list-iterator.patch