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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rbtree: fix the red root
From:   Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Date:   Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:12:36 -0500
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On Fri, 2019-01-11 at 09:31 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:51:45AM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> > Reported-by: Esme <esploit@protonmail.ch>
> > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> 
> What change introduced this bug?  We need a Fixes: line so the stable
> people know how far to backport this fix.

It looks like,

Fixes: 6d58452dc06 (rbtree: adjust root color in rb_insert_color() only when
necessary)

where it no longer always paint the root as black.

Also, copying this fix for the original author and reviewer.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190111165145.23628-1-cai@lca.pw/