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 ce278b3ae7fc..ef77fd88c8e3 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!