This patch appears to have been missed for ext3, while the ext4 version was merged back in March -- see 1363783057-3874-1-git-send-email-tytso@xxxxxxx. A customer of mine has been running into this bug on their production servers on 3.4-stable. It applies cleanly to the 3.3 through 3.8 trees. -ben commit e643692138cfa33528f054b071ba2583509bb217 Author: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 20 14:39:05 2013 +0100 ext3: fix data=journal fast mount/umount hang In data=journal mode, if we unmount the file system before a transaction has a chance to complete, when the journal inode is being evicted, we can end up calling into log_wait_commit() for the last transaction, after the journalling machinery has been shut down. That triggers the WARN_ONCE in __log_start_commit(). Arguably we should adjust ext3_should_journal_data() to return FALSE for the journal inode, but the only place it matters is ext3_evict_inode(), and so it's to save a bit of CPU time, and to make the patch much more obviously correct by inspection(tm), we'll fix it by explicitly not trying to waiting for a journal commit when we are evicting the journal inode, since it's guaranteed to never succeed in this case. This can be easily replicated via: mount -t ext3 -o data=journal /dev/vdb /vdb ; umount /vdb This is a port of ext4 fix from Ted Ts'o. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c index d512c4b..d706dbf 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -218,7 +218,8 @@ void ext3_evict_inode (struct inode *inode) */ if (inode->i_nlink && ext3_should_journal_data(inode) && EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal && - (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) { + (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) && + inode->i_ino != EXT3_JOURNAL_INO) { tid_t commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_datasync_tid); journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html