Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 17:55:52 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Cc:     Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, snild@sony.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maple-tree@lists.infradead.org,
        Stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] maple_tree: Fix the error of mas->min/max in
 mas_skip_node()
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On Wed,  8 Mar 2023 00:03:40 +0800 Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> wrote:

> The assignment of mas->min and mas->max is wrong. mas->min and mas->max
> should represent the range of the current node. After mas_ascend()
> returns, mas-min and mas->max already represent the range of the current
> node, so we should delete these assignments of mas->min and mas->max.
> 

Please fully describe the user-visible effects of the flaw, especially
when proposing a -stable backport.