The patch titled ext3: fix up rb_root initializations to use RB_ROOT has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3: fix up rb_root initializations to use RB_ROOT From: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> ext3 uses rb_node = NULL; to zero rb_root. The problem with this is that 17d9ddc72fb8bba0d4f678 ("rbtree: Add support for augmented rbtrees") in the linux-next tree adds a new field to that struct which needs to be NULLas well. This patch uses RB_ROOT as the intializer so all of the relevant fields will be NULL'd. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/dir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/dir.c~ext3-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root fs/ext3/dir.c --- a/fs/ext3/dir.c~ext3-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root +++ a/fs/ext3/dir.c @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static void free_rb_tree_fname(struct rb kfree (old); } if (!parent) - root->rb_node = NULL; + *root = RB_ROOT; else if (parent->rb_left == n) parent->rb_left = NULL; else if (parent->rb_right == n) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch arch-x86-kernel-hpetc-fix-bug-in-rtc-emulation.patch ext4-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root.patch ext3-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root.patch jffs2-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html