Hi Linus,
It turns out there is a regression:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19642
that was my fault.
The first of these three patches (avoid overflow...) fixes it.
Just a confirmation that the patch series (I didn't try them one at
a time) fixes the regression. I'd also like to agitate for inclusion
in 2.6.36.
Thank you very much; this was obviously a slightly obscure bug!