*
  * Requires j_checkpoint_mutex
  */
-void __jbd2_update_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid, unsigned long block)
+int __jbd2_update_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid, unsigned long block)
 {
        unsigned long freed;
+       int ret;
 
        BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex));
 
         * space and if we lose sb update during power failure we'd replay
         * old transaction with possibly newly overwritten data.
         */
-       jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal, tid, block, WRITE_FUA);
+       ret = jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal, tid, block, WRITE_FUA);
+       if (ret)
+               goto out;
+
        write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
        freed = block - journal->j_tail;
        if (block < journal->j_tail)
        journal->j_tail_sequence = tid;
        journal->j_tail = block;
        write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+out:
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /*
        return jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal);
 }
 
-static void jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_op)
+static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_op)
 {
        struct buffer_head *bh = journal->j_sb_buffer;
        journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
                printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: Error %d detected when updating "
                       "journal superblock for %s.\n", ret,
                       journal->j_devname);
+               jbd2_journal_abort(journal, ret);
        }
+
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /**
  * Update a journal's superblock information about log tail and write it to
  * disk, waiting for the IO to complete.
  */
-void jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tail_tid,
+int jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tail_tid,
                                     unsigned long tail_block, int write_op)
 {
        journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
+       int ret;
 
        BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex));
        jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: updating superblock (start %lu, seq %u)\n",
        sb->s_sequence = cpu_to_be32(tail_tid);
        sb->s_start    = cpu_to_be32(tail_block);
 
-       jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_op);
+       ret = jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_op);
+       if (ret)
+               goto out;
 
        /* Log is no longer empty */
        write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
        WARN_ON(!sb->s_sequence);
        journal->j_flags &= ~JBD2_FLUSHED;
        write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+out:
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /**
                return -EIO;
 
        mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
-       jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(journal);
+       if (!err) {
+               err = jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(journal);
+               if (err < 0) {
+                       mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
+                       goto out;
+               }
+               err = 0;
+       }
 
        /* Finally, mark the journal as really needing no recovery.
         * This sets s_start==0 in the underlying superblock, which is
        J_ASSERT(journal->j_head == journal->j_tail);
        J_ASSERT(journal->j_tail_sequence == journal->j_transaction_sequence);
        write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-       return 0;
+out:
+       return err;
 }
 
 /**
 
 int jbd2_journal_next_log_block(journal_t *, unsigned long long *);
 int jbd2_journal_get_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t *tid,
                              unsigned long *block);
-void __jbd2_update_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid, unsigned long block);
+int __jbd2_update_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid, unsigned long block);
 void jbd2_update_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid, unsigned long block);
 
 /* Commit management */
 extern int        jbd2_journal_wipe       (journal_t *, int);
 extern int        jbd2_journal_skip_recovery   (journal_t *);
 extern void       jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal_t *);
-extern void       jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail      (journal_t *, tid_t,
+extern int        jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail      (journal_t *, tid_t,
                                unsigned long, int);
 extern void       __jbd2_journal_abort_hard    (journal_t *);
 extern void       jbd2_journal_abort      (journal_t *, int);