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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:23:34 +0100
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
Don Mullis <don.mullis@...il.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: list sort
Hi,
There seems to be an issue with list_sort trying to compare an object to
itself. I spotted it first in a list for which I knew that I had unique
keys, so had put a BUG() in the cmp function if the keys being compared
were equal. While investigating I discovered that the objects themselves
were equal (and hence the keys, also). The following addition to the
list_sort test also triggers twice during the self test:
diff --git a/lib/list_sort.c b/lib/list_sort.c
index d7325c6..afa4a97 100644
--- a/lib/list_sort.c
+++ b/lib/list_sort.c
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ static int __init cmp(void *priv, struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
{
struct debug_el *ela, *elb;
+ WARN_ON(a == b);
+
ela = container_of(a, struct debug_el, list);
elb = container_of(b, struct debug_el, list);
While it appears generally harmless, since the list does appear to be
correctly sorted, it is doing extra work needlessly.
I couldn't find a listing in the maintainers' file for list_sort, so
I used git to find those who'd worked on it recently,
Steve.
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