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| author | Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> | 2012-10-09 03:30:35 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 11:22:32 +0400 |
| commit | ea5272f5c94fb2ee62f4f15a5b88eef6184cd506 (patch) | |
| tree | 819666fc929bcc50c434feba5f99beb44ed1ac7d /fs | |
| parent | 4c199a93a2d36b277a9fd209a0f2793f8460a215 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ea5272f5c94fb2ee62f4f15a5b88eef6184cd506.tar.xz | |
rbtree: fix incorrect rbtree node insertion in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
The recently added code to use rbtrees in sysctl did not follow the proper
rbtree interface on insertion - it was calling rb_link_node() which
inserts a new node into the binary tree, but missed the call to
rb_insert_color() which properly balances the rbtree and establishes all
expected rbtree invariants.
I found out about this only because faulty commit also used
rb_init_node(), which I am removing within this patchset. But I think
it's an easy mistake to make, and it makes me wonder if we should change
the rbtree API so that insertions would be done with a single rb_insert()
call (even if its implementation could still inline the rb_link_node()
part and call a private __rb_insert_color function to do the rebalancing).
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index fddc50729632..a781bdf06694 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ static int insert_entry(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *entry) } rb_link_node(node, parent, p); + rb_insert_color(node, &head->parent->root); return 0; } |