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-rw-r--r--mm/fadvise.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index b8024fa7101d..6c707bfe02fd 100644
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice)
*/
start_index = (offset+(PAGE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ if ((endbyte & ~PAGE_MASK) != ~PAGE_MASK) {
+ /* First page is tricky as 0 - 1 = -1, but pgoff_t
+ * is unsigned, so the end_index >= start_index
+ * check below would be true and we'll discard the whole
+ * file cache which is not what was asked.
+ */
+ if (end_index == 0)
+ break;
+
+ end_index--;
+ }
if (end_index >= start_index) {
unsigned long count = invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping,