Make sure that not only sync_filesystem but all callers of writeback_inodes_sb have the superblock protected against remount. As-is this disables all functionality for these callers, but the next patch relies on this locking to fix writeback_inodes_sb for sync_filesystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/fs-writeback.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2010-06-08 16:25:35.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/fs-writeback.c 2010-06-08 16:27:47.846255651 +0200 @@ -1180,6 +1180,8 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_bl .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, }; + WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)); + args.nr_pages = nr_dirty + nr_unstable + (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused); @@ -1197,7 +1199,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb); int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *sb) { if (!writeback_in_progress(sb->s_bdi)) { + down_read(&sb->s_umount); writeback_inodes_sb(sb); + up_read(&sb->s_umount); return 1; } else return 0; @@ -1220,6 +1224,8 @@ void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block * .range_cyclic = 0, }; + WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)); + bdi_queue_work_onstack(&args); wait_sb_inodes(sb); } Index: linux-2.6/fs/ubifs/budget.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ubifs/budget.c 2010-06-08 16:22:16.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ubifs/budget.c 2010-06-08 16:26:50.464004778 +0200 @@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ */ static void shrink_liability(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr_to_write) { + down_read(&c->vfs_sb->s_umount); writeback_inodes_sb(c->vfs_sb); + up_read(&c->vfs_sb->s_umount); } /** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html