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Date:   Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:16:52 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rbtree: fix the red root
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:58:43PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> diff --git a/lib/rbtree_test.c b/lib/rbtree_test.c
> index b7055b2a07d3..afad0213a117 100644
> --- a/lib/rbtree_test.c
> +++ b/lib/rbtree_test.c
> @@ -345,6 +345,17 @@ static int __init rbtree_test_init(void)
>  		check(0);
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * a little regression test to catch a bug may be introduced by
> +	 * 6d58452dc06 (rbtree: adjust root color in rb_insert_color() only when
> +	 * necessary)
> +	 */
> +	insert(nodes, &root);
> +	nodes->rb.__rb_parent_color = RB_RED;
> +	insert(nodes + 1, &root);
> +	erase(nodes + 1, &root);
> +	erase(nodes, &root);

That's not a fair test!  You're poking around in the data structure to
create the situation.  This test would have failed before 6d58452dc06 too.
How do we create a tree that has a red parent at root, only using insert()
and erase()?