[PATCH v3 0/9] introduce common FOREACH_SAFE macros

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:15:29 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> This series adds common macros for safe iteration over lists.
> It is a subset copy of the macros from FreeBSD that are
> missing from the Linux header sys/queue.h
> 
> Chose this over several other options:
>   - let each driver define their own as needed.
>     One Intel driver got it wrong, others will as well.
>   - rename all the queue macros to RTE_XXX variants.
>     Seems like useless renaming and confusion.
>   - Several distros have libbsd package with the correct macros.
>     But adding yet another dependency to DPDK would be annoying
>     for something this basic.
> 
> There are more macros in FreeBSD header that could be useful,
> but we can add those later as needed here.
> 
> v3 - add a few more open coded loops that can use a macro
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (9):
>   eal: add queue macro extensions from FreeBSD
>   net/qede: fix use after free
>   bus/fslmc: fix use after free
>   net/bnxt: fix use after free
>   net/iavf: replace local version of TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE
>   vhost: replace open coded TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE
>   raw/ifpga: use EAL version of TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE
>   net/i40e: replace open coded version of LIST_FOREACH_SAFE
>   net/ice: replace open coded version of LIST_FOREACH_SAFE
> 
>  drivers/bus/fslmc/portal/dpaa2_hw_dpio.c |   5 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_filter.c           |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c     |   9 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c      |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c       |   9 +-
>  drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.h           |   3 +-
>  drivers/net/qede/qede_filter.c           |  13 +-
>  drivers/raw/ifpga/base/ifpga_enumerate.c |   4 +-
>  drivers/raw/ifpga/base/opae_osdep.h      |   1 +
>  lib/eal/include/meson.build              |   3 +-
>  lib/eal/include/rte_queue.h              | 174 +++++++++++++++++++++++

Revisiting this and wondering about naming...
The file rte_queue.h is not really DPDK (ie not related to runtime environment).
Thinking of calling it bsd_queue.h as a comprimise