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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] IB/iSER: fix list iteration bug
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Erez Zilber <erezz@voltaire.com> writes:

> Arne Redlich wrote:
>> The iteration through the list of "iser_device"s during device
>> lookup/creation is broken - it might result in an infinite loop if more
>> than 1 HCA is used with iSER. Use list_for_each_entry() instead of the
>> custom, flawed list iteration code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arne Redlich <arne.redlich@xiranet.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c | 36 ++++++++++++-----------------
>> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
>> index 714b8db..1c0f968 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
>> @@ -237,33 +237,27 @@ static int iser_free_ib_conn_res(struct iser_conn *ib_conn)
>> static
>> struct iser_device *iser_device_find_by_ib_device(struct rdma_cm_id *cma_id)
>> {
>> - struct list_head *p_list;
>> - struct iser_device *device = NULL;
>> + struct iser_device *device;
>>
>> mutex_lock(&ig.device_list_mutex);
>>
>> - p_list = ig.device_list.next;
>> - while (p_list != &ig.device_list) {
>> - device = list_entry(p_list, struct iser_device, ig_list);
>> - /* find if there's a match using the node GUID */
>> + list_for_each_entry(device, &ig.device_list, ig_list)
>
> I've just added the original comments that are missing in your patch.

Ah well, I probably should've mentioned in the patch description that I
intentionally removed those comments as I think they're really
redundant, stating the obvious. But of course I won't insist. :)

Thanks,
Arne


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