diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e1207994d86e..8a9b26a3e2d2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 4706b349f4a8312d31b3d0cf61fe721699356920
+refs/heads/master: 852c8bf484a0e17ee27f413ef26e87f522af5607
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/md/linear.c b/trunk/drivers/md/linear.c
index 1e3aea9eecf1..09658b218474 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ static inline dev_info_t *which_dev(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector)
 {
 	dev_info_t *hash;
 	linear_conf_t *conf = mddev_to_conf(mddev);
+	sector_t idx = sector >> conf->sector_shift;
 
 	/*
 	 * sector_div(a,b) returns the remainer and sets a to a/b
 	 */
-	sector >>= conf->sector_shift;
-	(void)sector_div(sector, conf->spacing);
-	hash = conf->hash_table[sector];
+	(void)sector_div(idx, conf->spacing);
+	hash = conf->hash_table[idx];
 
 	while (sector >= hash->num_sectors + hash->start_sector)
 		hash++;