diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 45658c1bc324..bd3ff923dd59 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -326,6 +326,22 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
 	ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 }
 
+/*
+ * The del_gendisk() function uninitializes the disk-specific data
+ * structures, including the bdi structure, without telling anyone
+ * else.  Once this happens, any attempt to call mark_buffer_dirty()
+ * (for example, by ext4_commit_super), will cause a kernel OOPS.
+ * This is a kludge to prevent these oops until we can put in a proper
+ * hook in del_gendisk() to inform the VFS and file system layers.
+ */
+static int block_device_ejected(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct inode *bd_inode = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode;
+	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(bd_inode);
+
+	return bdi->dev == NULL;
+}
+
 static void ext4_journal_commit_callback(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn)
 {
 	struct super_block		*sb = journal->j_private;
@@ -4621,7 +4637,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
 	struct buffer_head *sbh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh;
 	int error = 0;
 
-	if (!sbh)
+	if (!sbh || block_device_ejected(sb))
 		return error;
 	if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) {
 		/*