ext4: eliminate sleep from shutdown ioctl

commit a6d9946bb9 upstream.

The msleep() when processing EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH was a hack to
avoid some races (that are now fixed), but in fact it introduced its
own race.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Theodore Ts'o 2018-02-18 23:16:28 -05:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
commit 0943948199