From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This reverts commit 860473714cbe7fbedcf92bfe3eb6d69fae8c74ff. That has an incorrect upstream commit reference, and was modified in a way that conflicts with some older fixes. We can cleanly cherry-pick the upstream commit *after* those fixes. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c @@ -4045,14 +4045,6 @@ retry: */ scanned = 1; index = 0; - - /* - * If we're looping we could run into a page that is locked by a - * writer and that writer could be waiting on writeback for a - * page in our current bio, and thus deadlock, so flush the - * write bio here. - */ - flush_write_bio(epd); goto retry; }