diff --git a/include/linux/radix-tree.h b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
index 0d04cd69ab9b..ffc444c38b0a 100644
--- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h
+++ b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
@@ -368,8 +368,11 @@ radix_tree_next_slot(void **slot, struct radix_tree_iter *iter, unsigned flags)
 			iter->index++;
 			if (likely(*slot))
 				return slot;
-			if (flags & RADIX_TREE_ITER_CONTIG)
+			if (flags & RADIX_TREE_ITER_CONTIG) {
+				/* forbid switching to the next chunk */
+				iter->next_index = 0;
 				break;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return NULL;
diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c
index d7c878cc006c..e7964296fd50 100644
--- a/lib/radix-tree.c
+++ b/lib/radix-tree.c
@@ -686,6 +686,9 @@ void **radix_tree_next_chunk(struct radix_tree_root *root,
 	 * during iterating; it can be zero only at the beginning.
 	 * And we cannot overflow iter->next_index in a single step,
 	 * because RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT < BITS_PER_LONG.
+	 *
+	 * This condition also used by radix_tree_next_slot() to stop
+	 * contiguous iterating, and forbid swithing to the next chunk.
 	 */
 	index = iter->next_index;
 	if (!index && iter->index)