plist_for_each_entry_safe(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for plist_for_each_entry_safe(9) in the Kernel API Manual 🫶 it's literally here to iterate safely over list of given type, and it's giving “your loop can handle a list entry getting removed” energy 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the whole call looks like this, no cap:

plist_for_each_entry_safe (pos , n , head , m );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pos — the type * to use as a loop counter 🔁
• n — another type *, this one for temporary storage 🗂️
• head — the head for your list 👑
• m — the name of the list_head within the struct 🧚

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This one iterates over a list of the given type, and it's the safe version: it's safe against removal of list entry while you're looping. That's the whole vibe, fr fr 💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the kernel file is literally ./include/linux/plist.h 📁 and you should also go peek at these, bestie:

• PLIST_HEAD_INIT(9)
• PLIST_HEAD(9)
• PLIST_NODE_INIT(9)
• plist_head_init(9)
• plist_node_init(9)
• plist_for_each(9)
• plist_for_each_continue(9)
• plist_for_each_safe(9)
• plist_for_each_entry(9)
• plist_for_each_entry_continue(9)
• plist_head_empty(9)
• plist_node_empty(9)
• plist_first_entry(9)
• plist_last_entry(9)
• plist_next(9)
• plist_prev(9)
• plist_first(9)
• plist_last(9)

okay that's the page!! byeee 💅 this one comes from ./include/linux and is dated October 2026, and it's all about plist_for_each_entry_safe(9) 🫶✨