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-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/ctree.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
index d99d9651dd5..4eada52f396 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
@@ -5097,7 +5097,17 @@ int btrfs_prev_leaf(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_path *path)
return ret;
btrfs_item_key(path->nodes[0], &found_key, 0);
ret = comp_keys(&found_key, &key);
- if (ret < 0)
+ /*
+ * We might have had an item with the previous key in the tree right
+ * before we released our path. And after we released our path, that
+ * item might have been pushed to the first slot (0) of the leaf we
+ * were holding due to a tree balance. Alternatively, an item with the
+ * previous key can exist as the only element of a leaf (big fat item).
+ * Therefore account for these 2 cases, so that our callers (like
+ * btrfs_previous_item) don't miss an existing item with a key matching
+ * the previous key we computed above.
+ */
+ if (ret <= 0)
return 0;
return 1;
}