Infinite recursion in JavaScript quicksort?

Here is the quicksort code I wrote. The function doesn't work because it can't reach the base case. If I log the pivot, r and l to the console, they remain the same no matter how many times the sort function is called. So I wonder if the argument l, r are not really passed into the function as data. Why did it happen?

function sort(data){
    if(data.length < 2){
        return data;
    }
    else{
        var l = [];
        var r = [];
        var pivot = parseInt(data.length/2);
        for(i=0; i<data.length; i++){
            if(data[i] > data[pivot]){
                r.push(data[i]);
            }
            else{
                l.push(data[i]);
            }
        }
        return sort(l).concat(sort(r));
    }
}