We hold our own active reference and we've checked it above. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index f3227b22879d..844ca13e9d93 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -2067,10 +2067,7 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb, enum freeze_holder who) /* Release s_umount to preserve sb_start_write -> s_umount ordering */ super_unlock_excl(sb); sb_wait_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); - if (!super_lock_excl(sb)) { - WARN_ON_ONCE("Dying superblock while freezing!"); - return -EINVAL; - } + __super_lock_excl(sb); /* Now we go and block page faults... */ sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT; -- 2.42.0