lib/rbtree.c has ensured that there is not possible to inadvertently cause (temporary) loops in the tree structure as seen in program order of the modifier. But loop is still possible to be seen in searcher due to CPU's reordering.
for example: modifier searcher left rotate at parent parent->rb_right is node search to parent parent->rb_right is node +->see node->rb_left changed WRITE_ONCE(parent->rb_right, tmp);-+ | node->rb_left is parennt no smp_wmb(), some arch can | | reorder these two writes | | loop long between WRITE_ONCE(node->rb_left, parent);-+-+ parent and node | +--->finally see parent->rb_right The long loop won't stop until the modifer's CPU flushes its writes. Too avoid it, we should limit the searching depth. There are no more than (1<<BITS_PER_LONG)-1 nodes in the tree. And the max_depth of a tree is no more than 2*lg(node_count+1), which is no mare than 2*BITS_PER_LONG. So the serarch should stop when diving down up to 2*BITS_PER_LONG depth. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <la...@linux.alibaba.com> --- include/linux/rbtree_latch.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/rbtree_latch.h b/include/linux/rbtree_latch.h index 7d012faa509a..b012bd95eabf 100644 --- a/include/linux/rbtree_latch.h +++ b/include/linux/rbtree_latch.h @@ -107,10 +107,11 @@ __lt_find(void *key, struct latch_tree_root *ltr, int idx, int (*comp)(void *key, struct latch_tree_node *node)) { struct rb_node *node = rcu_dereference_raw(ltr->tree[idx].rb_node); + int depth = 2 * BITS_PER_LONG; struct latch_tree_node *ltn; int c; - while (node) { + while (node && depth > 0) { ltn = __lt_from_rb(node, idx); c = comp(key, ltn); @@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ __lt_find(void *key, struct latch_tree_root *ltr, int idx, node = rcu_dereference_raw(node->rb_right); else return ltn; + depth--; } return NULL; -- 2.20.1