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diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 02c0fa5e16a4..f4e145016611 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -530,7 +530,13 @@ static void evict(struct inode *inode)
inode_sb_list_del(inode);
- inode_sync_wait(inode);
+ /*
+ * Wait for flusher thread to be done with the inode so that filesystem
+ * does not start destroying it while writeback is still running. Since
+ * the inode has I_FREEING set, flusher thread won't start new work on
+ * the inode. We just have to wait for running writeback to finish.
+ */
+ inode_wait_for_writeback(inode);
if (op->evict_inode) {
op->evict_inode(inode);