plist_for_each_safe(9)

💅 plist_for_each_safe(9) — Kernel API Manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, this is the plist_for_each_safe(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving very specific “safe loop” energy. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

plist_for_each_safe — iterate safely over a plist of given type

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

plist_for_each_safe (pos , n , head );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pos — the type * to use as a loop counter
• n — another type * to use as temporary storage
• head — the head for your list

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Bestie, it’s literally this: iterate over a plist of given type, safe against removal of list entry. that’s the whole vibe 😌✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./include/linux/plist.h

the whole SEE ALSO squad, in order:

• 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_entry(9)
• plist_for_each_entry_continue(9)
• plist_for_each_entry_safe(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)

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that’s the tea: source/version line is ./include/linux, the date is October 2026, and the page is plist_for_each_safe(9) — bye bestie, slay your kernel code 💖✨