On 7/11/06, Om. <om.turyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/11/06, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@xxxxxxxxx> 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)
> }
Don't use it. Use lit_for_each_safe()
From include/linux/list.h,
list_for_each_entry_safe - iterate over list of given type safe
against removal of list entry
Free each element's individually kmalloc()-ed pointers first as well.
HTH,
Om.
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