The ext4 forced shutdown flag needs to prevent new handles from being started, but it needs to allow existing handles to complete. So the forced shutdown flag should not force ext4_journal_get_write_access to fail. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c index 2d593201cf7a..7c70b08d104c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c @@ -166,13 +166,6 @@ int __ext4_journal_get_write_access(const char *where, unsigned int line, might_sleep(); if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) { - struct super_block *sb; - - sb = handle->h_transaction->t_journal->j_private; - if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(EXT4_SB(sb)))) { - jbd2_journal_abort_handle(handle); - return -EIO; - } err = jbd2_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh); if (err) ext4_journal_abort_handle(where, line, __func__, bh, -- 2.16.1.72.g5be1f00a9a