From ab4e0910b64255140313a0fe806b9ea8c0d7c9b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 73819 b: refs/heads/master c:
 d32ddd8f20e7d7a49c45c337c2079be03c77dc41 h: refs/heads/master i:   73817:
 58c168c58a1e40c8ba94dc9c114868e3a2358c5e   73815:
 a8ed15da74fca42fec266ec8b0b7a6ffa988a839 v: v3

---
 [refs]          | 2 +-
 trunk/mm/slob.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ca6775f0390c..d4c7304f1b6e 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a3474224e6a01924be40a8255636ea5522c1023a
+refs/heads/master: d32ddd8f20e7d7a49c45c337c2079be03c77dc41
diff --git a/trunk/mm/slob.c b/trunk/mm/slob.c
index 5bc2ceb692ec..08a9bd91a1aa 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/slob.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/slob.c
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
 		/* Improve fragment distribution and reduce our average
 		 * search time by starting our next search here. (see
 		 * Knuth vol 1, sec 2.5, pg 449) */
-		if (free_slob_pages.next != prev->next)
+		if (prev != free_slob_pages.prev &&
+				free_slob_pages.next != prev->next)
 			list_move_tail(&free_slob_pages, prev->next);
 		break;
 	}