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authorAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>2006-06-20 00:29:41 -0700
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2006-06-22 12:16:12 -0700
commit40b61cc4d9b94f28d197f52420aa73afeab33f4b (patch)
treee2465d983a98685e5c12b76124abedc574572fd7 /fs
parentbb2f2dbc934bd12945074118932907a315f722ea (diff)
[PATCH] NTFS: Critical bug fix (affects MIPS and possibly others)
It fixes a crash in NTFS on architectures where flush_dcache_page() is a real function. I never noticed this as all my testing is done on i386 where flush_dcache_page() is NULL. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6700 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: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ntfs/file.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
index 5027d3d1b3fe..89449d3967a3 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -1489,14 +1489,15 @@ static inline void ntfs_flush_dcache_pages(struct page **pages,
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);
}
/**