[RFC,v2,05/17] tools lib: Add list_last_entry_or_null

Commit Message

Yang Jihong June 24, 2022, 2:03 p.m. UTC

Add list_last_entry_or_null to get the last element from a list,
returns NULL if the list is empty.

Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <[e-mail]>
---
 tools/include/linux/list.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/list.h b/tools/include/linux/list.h
index b2fc48d5478c..a4dfb6a7cc6a 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/list.h
@@ -384,6 +384,17 @@  static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
 #define list_first_entry_or_null(ptr, type, member) \
 	(!list_empty(ptr) ? list_first_entry(ptr, type, member) : NULL)
 
+/**
+ * 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) \
+	(!list_empty(ptr) ? list_last_entry(ptr, type, member) : NULL)
+
 /**
  * list_next_entry - get the next element in list
  * @pos:	the type * to cursor