1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index dc32dae01e5f..c17005e73974 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
                 struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
                 loff_t *ppos)
 {
-        int old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
+        unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
         int ret;
 
         ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);