diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index ad90cbe76703..68f6bf122006 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -425,6 +425,8 @@ int nfs_scan_list(struct nfs_inode *nfsi,
 						req->wb_index, tag);
 				nfs_list_add_request(req, dst);
 				res++;
+				if (res == INT_MAX)
+					goto out;
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index a94205476736..750708ccd708 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ struct nfs_inode {
 	spinlock_t		req_lock;
 	struct radix_tree_root	nfs_page_tree;
 
-	unsigned int		ncommit,
+	unsigned long		ncommit,
 				npages;
 
 	/* Open contexts for shared mmap writes */