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From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:33:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52784ADF.1040104@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131105004559.GB24531@quack.suse.cz>

On 11/04/2013 04:45 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 04-11-13 15:26:38, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Fri 01-11-13 15:38:50, Cody P Schafer wrote:
>>> Use rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() to destroy the rbtree instead
>>> of opencoding an alternate postorder iteration that modifies the tree
>>    Thanks. I've merged the patch into my tree.
>    Hum, except that the kernel oopses with this patch. And I think the
> problem is in rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(). How are those tests
> for NULL supposed to work? For example if the tree is empty, 'pos' will be
> NULL and you'll call rb_next_postorder(&NULL->field) which is pretty much
> guaranteed to oops if 'field' doesn't have offset 0 in the structure...
> 	

You're absolutely right, those NULL checks are wrong when the rb_node 
isn't the first element. Fix incoming shortly.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1383345566-25087-1-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-11-01 22:38 ` [PATCH 4/8] fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding Cody P Schafer
2013-11-01 22:38 ` [PATCH 6/8] fs/ext3: " Cody P Schafer
2013-11-04 14:26   ` Jan Kara
2013-11-05  0:45     ` Jan Kara
2013-11-05  1:33       ` Cody P Schafer [this message]
2013-11-05  1:40         ` [PATCH 1/2] rbtree: fix postorder iteration when the rb_node is not the first element in an entry Cody P Schafer
2013-11-05  1:40           ` [PATCH 2/2] rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct Cody P Schafer
2013-11-05 10:05           ` [PATCH 1/2] rbtree: fix postorder iteration when the rb_node is not the first element in an entry Cody P Schafer
2013-11-05 21:57             ` Jan Kara
2013-11-05 22:56               ` Jan Kara
2013-11-06 20:18                 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-11-06 21:37                   ` [PATCH] rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() Cody P Schafer
2013-11-06 23:16                     ` Andrew Morton

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