Re: [PATCH v3] Btrfs: fix crash regarding to ulist_add_merge

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:37:45PM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> Several users reported this crash of NULL pointer or general protection,
> the story is that we add a rbtree for speedup ulist iteration, and we
> use krealloc() to address ulist growth, and krealloc() use memcpy to copy
> old data to new memory area, so it's OK for an array as it doesn't use
> pointers while it's not OK for a rbtree as it uses pointers.
> 
> So krealloc() will mess up our rbtree and it ends up with crash.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, this should fix the probem.  Thanks for being persistent.

Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +		for (i = 0; i < ulist->nnodes; i++)
> +			rb_erase(&ulist->nodes[i].rb_node, &ulist->root);

(still twitching over here because this is a bunch of work that achieves
nothing :))

- z
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