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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>2013-05-29 05:02:56 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2017-03-16 02:18:59 +0000
commit4157e287632c9f88ea9bee74d7296a20aa1654cc (patch)
treee75f03f47721e0ce869b10dc7e7337e9f482cf86
parentbbaa1c66dda93748aca828bb7bffc7170d777427 (diff)
list: introduce list_first_entry_or_null
commit 6d7581e62f8be462440d7b22c6361f7c9fa4902b upstream. non-rcu variant of list_first_or_null_rcu Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index cc6d2aa6b415..7690738b39e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -362,6 +362,17 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
list_entry((ptr)->next, type, member)
/**
+ * list_first_entry_or_null - get the first element from a list
+ * @ptr: the list head to take the element from.
+ * @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ *
+ * Note that if the list is empty, it returns NULL.
+ */
+#define list_first_entry_or_null(ptr, type, member) \
+ (!list_empty(ptr) ? list_first_entry(ptr, type, member) : NULL)
+
+/**
* list_for_each - iterate over a list
* @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
* @head: the head for your list.