diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d8bc973f2..91d5eaef23 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-02-18  Mukund Sivaraman  <muks@mukund.org>
+
+	* plug-ins/common/png.c: Moved an invariant (in the last
+	  changeset to this file) out of the loop.
+
 2007-02-17  Kevin Cozens  <kcozens@cvs.gnome.org>
 
 	* plug-ins/script-fu/tinyscheme/scheme-private.h: Add define for
diff --git a/plug-ins/common/png.c b/plug-ins/common/png.c
index 0bbc19fb83..587a056105 100644
--- a/plug-ins/common/png.c
+++ b/plug-ins/common/png.c
@@ -968,6 +968,7 @@ load_image (const gchar *filename,
   error_data.width = info->width;
   error_data.height = info->height;
   error_data.bpp = bpp;
+  error_data.pixel_rgn = &pixel_rgn;
   
   png_set_error_fn (pp, &error_data, on_read_error, NULL);
 
@@ -992,7 +993,6 @@ load_image (const gchar *filename,
           error_data.begin = begin;
           error_data.end = end;
           error_data.num = num;
-          error_data.pixel_rgn = &pixel_rgn;
           
           png_read_rows (pp, pixels, NULL, num);