> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Lyle [mailto:ml...@lyle.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 1:38 PM
> To: Coly Li
> Cc: linux-bca...@vger.kernel.org; linux-block@vger.kernel.org;
> ax...@kernel.dk; Eric Wheeler; Byungchul Park; Kent Overstreet
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] bcache: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing
> llist API
> 
> I believe this introduces a critical bug.
> 
> cl->list is used to link together the llists for both things waiting,
> and for things that are being woken.
> 
> If a closure that is woken decides to wait again, it will corrupt the
> llist that __closure_wake_up is using.
> 
> The previous iteration structure gets the next element of the list
> before waking and is therefore safe.

Do you mean we have to use llist_for_each_entry_safe() instead of non-safe 
version?
Is it ok if we use it instead?

> Mike

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