maple_tree: refine mas_store_root() on storing NULL
Currently, when storing NULL on mas_store_root(), the behavior could be improved. Storing NULLs over the entire tree may result in a node being used to store a single range. Further stores of NULL may cause the node and tree to be corrupt and cause incorrect behaviour. Fixing the store to the root null fixes the issue by ensuring that a range of 0 - ULONG_MAX results in an empty tree. Users of the tree may experience incorrect values returned if the tree was expanded to store values, then overwritten by all NULLS, then continued to store NULLs over the empty area. For example possible cases are: * store NULL at any range result a new node * store NULL at range [m, n] where m > 0 to a single entry tree result a new node with range [m, n] set to NULL * store NULL at range [m, n] where m > 0 to an empty tree result consecutive NULL slot * it allows for multiple NULL entries by expanding root to store NULLs to an empty tree This patch tries to improve in: * memory efficient by setting to empty tree instead of using a node * remove the possibility of consecutive NULL slot which will prohibit extended null in later operation Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241031231627.14316-5-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Fixes: 54a611b6 ("Maple Tree: add new data structure") Signed-off-by:Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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