linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: fix rbtree-interval search

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:51:41 +0100
From:	William Dauchy <william@...di.net>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: fix rbtree-interval search

On Oct29 14:12, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> I've noticed message on kvm exit:
> 
>   Warning: serial8250__exit failed.
> 
> kvm tool is not able to remove ioport range which was added previously.
> 
> The issue is caused by bug in rbtree-interval. Search algorithm in
> rb_int_search_single() expects correct value of max_high. But the tree
> can contain leaf nodes, which never were updated by propagate_callback().
> For this kind of nodes high_max will be 0 and we will not be able to
> find and remove them.
> 
> Let's initialize max_high on RB_INT_INIT() time.
> 
> Fixing this bug makes other bug visible: propagate_callback() can be
> called for empty tree: node == NULL. The callback is not ready for empty
> tree. Let's fix that as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

I had the same issue but didn't found the time to fix it.
Applying the patch fixes the problem.

Tested-by: William Dauchy <william@...di.net>

Thanks,
-- 
William

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