From ea5272f5c94fb2ee62f4f15a5b88eef6184cd506 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:30:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: David Woodhouse Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Daniel Santos Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) 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; } -- 2.20.1