Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc

Conflicts:
	sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index ce278b3ae7f..ef77fd88c8e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2841,8 +2841,8 @@ xfs_iflush(
         mp = ip->i_mount;
 
         /*
-         * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode
-         * flush lock and do nothing.
+         * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode flush lock and
+         * do nothing.
          */
         if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
                 xfs_ifunlock(ip);
@@ -2868,6 +2868,19 @@ xfs_iflush(
         xfs_iunpin_wait(ip);
 
         /*
+         * For stale inodes we cannot rely on the backing buffer remaining
+         * stale in cache for the remaining life of the stale inode and so
+         * xfs_itobp() below may give us a buffer that no longer contains
+         * inodes below. We have to check this after ensuring the inode is
+         * unpinned so that it is safe to reclaim the stale inode after the
+         * flush call.
+         */
+        if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE)) {
+                xfs_ifunlock(ip);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        /*
          * This may have been unpinned because the filesystem is shutting
          * down forcibly. If that's the case we must not write this inode
          * to disk, because the log record didn't make it to disk!