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-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/super.c24
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index a9312f0a54e5..daefedd8f58f 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -412,6 +412,22 @@ static void dump_orphan_list(struct super_block *sb, struct ext3_sb_info *sbi)
}
}
+/*
+ * The del_gendisk() function uninitializes the disk-specific data
+ * structures, including the bdi structure, without telling anyone
+ * else. Once this happens, any attempt to call mark_buffer_dirty()
+ * (for example, by ext4_commit_super), will cause a kernel OOPS.
+ * This is a kludge to prevent these oops until we can put in a proper
+ * hook in del_gendisk() to inform the VFS and file system layers.
+ */
+static int ext3_block_device_ejected(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct inode *bd_inode = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode;
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(bd_inode);
+
+ return bdi->dev == NULL;
+}
+
static void ext3_put_super (struct super_block * sb)
{
struct ext3_sb_info *sbi = EXT3_SB(sb);
@@ -428,9 +444,11 @@ static void ext3_put_super (struct super_block * sb)
if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);
- BUFFER_TRACE(sbi->s_sbh, "marking dirty");
- mark_buffer_dirty(sbi->s_sbh);
- ext3_commit_super(sb, es, 1);
+ if (!ext3_block_device_ejected(sb)) {
+ BUFFER_TRACE(sbi->s_sbh, "marking dirty");
+ mark_buffer_dirty(sbi->s_sbh);
+ ext3_commit_super(sb, es, 1);
+ }
}
for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_gdb_count; i++)