From: Ziran Zhang <zhangcoder@yeah.net>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Jordan R Abrahams-Whitehead <ajordanr@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>,
Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ziran Zhang <zhangcoder@yeah.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] list: add missing empty list check to list_cut_before()
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:55:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917125505.50897-2-zhangcoder@yeah.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917125505.50897-1-zhangcoder@yeah.net>
list_cut_before() lacks the list_empty() guard present
in list_cut_position().
With an empty head and an entry not on the list, it
corrupts the list.
Add the missing check. When head is empty, initialize
@list as empty, consistent with the existing
head->next == entry case.
Signed-off-by: Ziran Zhang <zhangcoder@yeah.net>
---
include/linux/list.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 77fb62f79..4d2061d35 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -555,6 +555,11 @@ static inline void list_cut_before(struct list_head *list,
struct list_head *head,
struct list_head *entry)
{
+ if (list_empty(head)) {
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(list);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (head->next == entry) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(list);
return;
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 12:55 [PATCH v2 0/2] " Ziran Zhang
2026-09-17 12:55 ` Ziran Zhang [this message]
2026-09-17 15:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17 16:14 ` Ziran Zhang
2026-09-18 6:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17 12:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] list: add KUnit test for list_cut_before() empty list case Ziran Zhang
2026-09-18 7:33 ` Andy Shevchenko
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