diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index ddba069..cb20744 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@
 		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dentry_lru);
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_async_list);
 		init_rwsem(&s->s_umount);
 		mutex_init(&s->s_lock);
 		lockdep_set_class(&s->s_umount, &type->s_umount_key);
@@ -289,11 +291,18 @@
 {
 	const struct super_operations *sop = sb->s_op;
 
+
 	if (sb->s_root) {
 		shrink_dcache_for_umount(sb);
 		fsync_super(sb);
 		lock_super(sb);
 		sb->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE;
+
+		/*
+		 * wait for asynchronous fs operations to finish before going further
+		 */
+		async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
+
 		/* bad name - it should be evict_inodes() */
 		invalidate_inodes(sb);
 		lock_kernel();
@@ -449,6 +458,7 @@
 		if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
 			continue;
 		sb->s_need_sync_fs = 1;
+		async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
 	}
 
 restart: