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authorLuca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>2025-08-01 20:05:23 +0300
committerLuca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>2025-09-02 12:38:29 +0300
commitcb86408b1fc2e3f6fe45ebe8509a5404060e01e0 (patch)
tree7adb860b00c73ab115c9e41d90b7dde092124682 /include/linux
parent2a06126d1624f0661fac0833e7ee1dbdc636154e (diff)
downloadlinux-cb86408b1fc2e3f6fe45ebe8509a5404060e01e0.tar.xz
list: add list_last_entry_or_null()
Add an equivalent of list_first_entry_or_null() to obtain the last element of a list. Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250801-drm-bridge-alloc-getput-drm_bridge_get_next_bridge-v2-1-888912b0be13@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list.h14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index e7e28afd28f8..7f7657e41620 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -637,6 +637,20 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
})
/**
+ * list_last_entry_or_null - get the last 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_head within the struct.
+ *
+ * Note that if the list is empty, it returns NULL.
+ */
+#define list_last_entry_or_null(ptr, type, member) ({ \
+ struct list_head *head__ = (ptr); \
+ struct list_head *pos__ = READ_ONCE(head__->prev); \
+ pos__ != head__ ? list_entry(pos__, type, member) : NULL; \
+})
+
+/**
* list_next_entry - get the next element in list
* @pos: the type * to cursor
* @member: the name of the list_head within the struct.