From: Suparna Bhattacharya wait_on_page_writeback_range shouldn't wait for pages beyond the specified range. Ideally, the radix-tree-lookup could accept an end_index parameter so that it doesn't return the extra pages in the first place, but for now we just add a few extra checks to skip such pages. --- rc3mm3/mm/filemap.c 2004-04-01 15:54:35.141840752 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.5-rc3-mm3/mm/filemap.c 2004-04-01 16:08:50.857752160 +0530 @@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ static int wait_on_page_writeback_range( pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); index = start; - while ((nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, + while ((index <= end) && + (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK, min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) { unsigned i; @@ -194,6 +195,10 @@ static int wait_on_page_writeback_range( for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; + /* until radix tree lookup accepts end_index */ + if (page->index > end) { + continue; + } wait_on_page_writeback(page); if (PageError(page)) ret = -EIO;