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rbtree: fix incorrect rbtree node insertion in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:22:39 +0000 (13:22 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 05:08:31 +0000 (15:08 +1000)
commit52d776927c75c1b8c3abcbc0fe13d191a51ed6a3
tree8d55e956232c98e37149951ffaedede13d8b6ba2
parentadacc587950f3a9151f970d760ba0eceac5140a1
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>
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c