The patch titled
NTFS: Critical bug fix (affects MIPS and possibly others)
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ntfs-critical-bug-fix-affects-mips-and-possibly-others.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: NTFS: Critical bug fix (affects MIPS and possibly others)
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx>
Many thanks to Pauline Ng for the detailed bug report and analysis!
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs/file.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/ntfs/file.c~ntfs-critical-bug-fix-affects-mips-and-possibly-others fs/ntfs/file.c
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c~ntfs-critical-bug-fix-affects-mips-and-possibly-others
+++ a/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -1484,14 +1484,15 @@ static inline void ntfs_flush_dcache_pag
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);
}
/**
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from aia21@xxxxxxxxx are
ntfs-critical-bug-fix-affects-mips-and-possibly-others.patch
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