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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/super.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 45658c1bc324..bd3ff923dd59 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -326,6 +326,22 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func, ext4_commit_super(sb, 1); } +/* + * 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 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 ext4_journal_commit_callback(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn) { struct super_block *sb = journal->j_private; @@ -4621,7 +4637,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync) struct buffer_head *sbh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh; int error = 0; - if (!sbh) + if (!sbh || block_device_ejected(sb)) return error; if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { /* |