On Mon 19-02-18 21:30:35, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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
Looks good. You can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Honza
> ---
> 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
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
