NTFS: Fix a buggette in an "should be impossible" case handling where we

      continued the attribute lookup loop instead of aborting it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index 3d8d60be48de..d35a5c8e3da9 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ ToDo/Notes:
         - Fix two compiler warnings on Alpha.  Thanks to Andrew Morton for
           reporting them.
         - Fix an (innocent) off-by-one error in the runlist code.
+        - Fix a buggette in an "should be impossible" case handling where we
+          continued the attribute lookup loop instead of aborting it.
 
 2.1.26 - Minor bug fixes and updates.
 
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
index 9480a0526cd3..a92b9e9db91d 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
  * attrib.c - NTFS attribute operations.  Part of the Linux-NTFS project.
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Anton Altaparmakov
+ * Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Anton Altaparmakov
  * Copyright (c) 2002 Richard Russon
  *
  * This program/include file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ do_next_attr_loop:
                                 le32_to_cpu(ctx->mrec->bytes_allocated))
                         break;
                 if (a->type == AT_END)
-                        continue;
+                        break;
                 if (!a->length)
                         break;
                 if (al_entry->instance != a->instance)