Cody P Schafer 8de1ee7ebf rbtree: clarify documentation of rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() ... I noticed that commit a20135ffbc ("writeback: don't drain bdi_writeback_congested on bdi destruction") added a usage of rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() in mm/backing-dev.c which appears to try to rb_erase() elements from an rbtree while iterating over it using rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(). Doing this will cause random nodes to be missed by the iteration because rb_erase() may rebalance the tree, changing the ordering that we're trying to iterate over. The previous documentation for rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() wasn't clear that this wasn't allowed, it was taken from the docs for list_for_each_entry_safe(), where erasing isn't a problem due to list_del() not reordering. Explicitly warn developers about this potential pit-fall. Note that I haven't fixed the actual issue that (it appears) the commit referenced above introduced (not familiar enough with that code). In general (and in this case), the patterns to follow are: - switch to rb_first() + rb_erase(), don't use rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(). - keep the postorder iteration and don't rb_erase() at all. Instead just clear the fields of rb_node & cgwb_congested_tree as required by other users of those structures. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com> Cc: John de la Garza <john@jjdev.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
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acpi	Merge branch 'acpi-processor'	2015-11-02 00:50:37 +01:00
asm-generic	Power management and ACPI updates for v4.4-rc1	2015-11-04 18:10:13 -08:00
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crypto	Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security	2015-11-05 15:32:38 -08:00
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dt-bindings	- New Device Support	2015-11-06 10:23:50 -08:00
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kvm	s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time	2015-11-05 16:26:26 -08:00
linux	rbtree: clarify documentation of rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()	2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
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trace	mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd	2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
uapi	Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)	2015-11-05 23:10:54 -08:00
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