Re: [patch] btrfs: fix inode rbtree corruption

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2009/8/19 Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Ran into a problem stress testing my btrfs truncate conversion attempt...
> Unfortunately it was an existing btrfs problem. Fortunately I think I
> was able to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> --
> btrfs: fix inode rbtree corruption
>
> Node may not be inserted over existing node. This causes inode tree
> corruption and I was seeing crashes in inode_tree_del which I can not
> reproduce after this patch.
>
> The other way to fix this would be to tie inode lifetime in the rbtree
> with inode while not in freeing state. I had a look at this but it is
> not so trivial at this point. At least this patch gets things working again.
>

I'm not quite understand this. rbtree allows entries having the same keys.
I guess your problem is because of some nodes get inserted into the tree
twice. But I have no idea how can it happen.

Regards
Yan, Zheng
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