4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
commit a6d9946bb925293fda9f5ed6d33d8580b001f006 upstream.
The msleep() when processing EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH was a hack to avoid some races (that are now fixed), but in fact it introduced its own race.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -497,10 +497,8 @@ static int ext4_shutdown(struct super_bl break; case EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH: set_bit(EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN, &sbi->s_ext4_flags); - if (sbi->s_journal && !is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal)) { - msleep(100); + if (sbi->s_journal && !is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal)) jbd2_journal_abort(sbi->s_journal, 0); - } break; default: return -EINVAL;