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Commit 46437f9a authored by Matthew Wilcox's avatar Matthew Wilcox Committed by Linus Torvalds
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radix-tree: fix race in gang lookup

If the indirect_ptr bit is set on a slot, that indicates we need to redo
the lookup.  Introduce a new function radix_tree_iter_retry() which
forces the loop to retry the lookup by setting 'slot' to NULL and
turning the iterator back to point at the problematic entry.

This is a pretty rare problem to hit at the moment; the lookup has to
race with a grow of the radix tree from a height of 0.  The consequences
of hitting this race are that gang lookup could return a pointer to a
radix_tree_node instead of a pointer to whatever the user had inserted
in the tree.

Fixes: cebbd29e

 ("radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3c1da7be
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