Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8188eu: core: Use list_for_each_entry_safe

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 01:58:32AM +0530, Srishti Sharma wrote:
> > > Use list_for_each_entry_safe when the list elements may get deleted
> > > during traversal.
> >
> > This patch is fine as a cleanup but none of these are actually buggy.
> 
> I'm not sure what you are getting at with the comment.  The commit doesn't
> say that they were buggy.  Perhaps the commit message could have been more
> verbose, like "Use list operators on list_head values.
> List_for_each_entry_safe is needed because the list elements get deleted
                           ^^^^^^^^^

It is not *needed*, the original code works fine.  The problem with the
original code, is that it's ugly as sin.

> during the traversal"?

The changelog needs to say *why* we're applying the patch.  At first I
thought it was going to fix a use after free.  What I would prefer in
the changelog is something like:  "This patch is a cleanup and doesn't
change runtime behavior.  It changes an open coded list traversal to
use list_for_each_entry_safe."

regards,
dan carpenter