rbtree: fix rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() iterator
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:11:19 +0000 (15:11 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:09:33 +0000 (12:09 +0900)
commit1310a5a99d900ee30b9f171146406bde0c6c2bd4
treeebc404cf6c46c842244445221cdbce51fece9609
parentd049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348
rbtree: fix rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() iterator

The iterator rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() relies on pointer
underflow behavior when testing for loop termination.  In particular it
expects that

  &rb_entry(NULL, type, field)->field

is NULL.  But the result of this expression is not defined by a C standard
and some gcc versions (e.g.  4.3.4) assume the above expression can never
be equal to NULL.  The net result is an oops because the iteration is not
properly terminated.

Fix the problem by modifying the iterator to avoid pointer underflows.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.12.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/rbtree.h