[PATCH] NTFS: Critical bug fix (affects MIPS and possibly others)
Many thanks to Pauline Ng for the detailed bug report and analysis!
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
index c63a83e..36e1e136 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -1484,14 +1484,15 @@
unsigned nr_pages)
{
BUG_ON(!nr_pages);
+ /*
+ * Warning: Do not do the decrement at the same time as the call to
+ * flush_dcache_page() because it is a NULL macro on i386 and hence the
+ * decrement never happens so the loop never terminates.
+ */
do {
- /*
- * Warning: Do not do the decrement at the same time as the
- * call because flush_dcache_page() is a NULL macro on i386
- * and hence the decrement never happens.
- */
+ --nr_pages;
flush_dcache_page(pages[nr_pages]);
- } while (--nr_pages > 0);
+ } while (nr_pages > 0);
}
/**