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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index b493db7841d..3c84128596b 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);
@@ -1051,13 +1051,25 @@ continue_unlock:
 				}
  			}
 
-			if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
-				wbc->nr_to_write--;
-				if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) {
+			if (nr_to_write > 0) {
+				nr_to_write--;
+				if (nr_to_write == 0 &&
+				    wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
+					/*
+					 * We stop writing back only if we are
+					 * not doing integrity sync. In case of
+					 * integrity sync we have to keep going
+					 * because someone may be concurrently
+					 * dirtying pages, and we might have
+					 * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty
+					 * pages, but have not synced all of the
+					 * old dirty pages.
+					 */
 					done = 1;
 					break;
 				}
 			}
+
 			if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
 				wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
 				done = 1;
@@ -1067,7 +1079,7 @@ continue_unlock:
 		pagevec_release(&pvec);
 		cond_resched();
 	}
-	if (!cycled) {
+	if (!cycled && !done) {
 		/*
 		 * range_cyclic:
 		 * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap