On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:09 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know how to free a list_head.
>
> I have almost 200 elements and I'm wonder if I must traverse the list
> for all the elements and do:
>
> list_for_each(...){
> my_entry=list_entry(....)
> list_del(my_entry)
> kfree(my_entry)
> }
>
> Should I do this in this way?
no you should at least use list_for_each_safe() if you're doing this...
(hint: list_for_each caches the next pointer and your code would kfree
this next pointer's memory....)
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