->kill_sb can't race with creating ->fill_super because pstore is a _single file system that only ever has a single sb instance, and we wait for the previous one to go away before creating a new one. Reduce the critical section so that is is not held over generic_shutdown_super. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/pstore/inode.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c index 585360706b335f..fd1d24b47160d0 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/inode.c +++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c @@ -467,10 +467,9 @@ static struct dentry *pstore_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, static void pstore_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb) { - mutex_lock(&pstore_sb_lock); - WARN_ON(pstore_sb && pstore_sb != sb); - kill_litter_super(sb); + + mutex_lock(&pstore_sb_lock); pstore_sb = NULL; mutex_lock(&records_list_lock); -- 2.39.2