On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:09:38PM +0200, Fernando Apestegu?a 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, try this instead:
list_for_each_entry_safe(...) {
list_del(my_entry);
kfree(my_entry);
}
The main point is the _safe usage if you are traversing a list and
deleting items from it at the same time.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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