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@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 4d1b1575f8ac..16d3d1325f5b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -498,10 +498,8 @@ static int ext4_shutdown(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long arg)
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;
--
2.16.1.72.g5be1f00a9a
