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SubjectRe: [PATCH] maple_tree: Fix sparse reported issues
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* Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> [220713 11:56]:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, Liam Howlett wrote:
> > * David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> [220713 04:34]:
> > > On 12.07.22 16:24, Liam Howlett wrote:
> > > > When building with C=1, the maple tree had some rcu type mismatch &
> > > > locking mismatches in the destroy functions. There were cosmetic only
> > > > since this happens after the nodes are removed from the tree.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: f8acc5e9581e (Maple Tree: add new data structure)
> > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> > >
> > > Sorry to say, but the fixes become hard to follow (what/where/why). :)
> > >
> > > I guess it's time for a new series soon. Eventually it makes sense to
> > > send the fixes as reply to the individual problematic patches. (instead
> > > of fixes to commit ids that are not upstream)
> > >
> > > [yes, I'll do more review soon :) ]
> >
> > I appreciate the feedback, it's much better than yelling into the void.
> > I have one more fix in the works - for __vma_adjust() of all functions
> > so that'll be impossible to follow anyways :) I'll work on a v11 to
> > include that last one.
>
> Please do also post the incremental for that "one more fix" once it's
> ready: I have been keeping up with what you've been posting so far,
> folding them into my debugging here, and believe we have made some but
> still not enough progress on the bugs I hit. Folding in one more fix
> will be easy for me, advancing to v11 of a 69-part patchset will be...
> dispiriting.


Okay, thanks. I don't think it will fix your outstanding issues but it
is necessary to fix case 6 of vma_merge() on memory allocation failure
as reported by syzbot.

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