The subtraction was the wrong way round, leading to undefined behaviour (shift by an amount larger than the size of the type). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/radix-tree.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c index 40343f28a705..42a0492b2ba2 100644 --- a/lib/radix-tree.c +++ b/lib/radix-tree.c @@ -526,8 +526,8 @@ int __radix_tree_create(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned long index, #ifdef CONFIG_RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDER /* Insert pointers to the canonical entry */ - if ((shift - order) > 0) { - int i, n = 1 << (shift - order); + if (order > shift) { + int i, n = 1 << (order - shift); offset = offset & ~(n - 1); slot = ptr_to_indirect(&node->slots[offset]); for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { -- 2.8.0.rc3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>