diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
index a1909066bde6..62cf497f18eb 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ void __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
 				       "journal space in %s\n", __func__,
 				       journal->j_devname);
 				WARN_ON(1);
-				jbd2_journal_abort(journal, 0);
+				jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
 			}
 			write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 		} else {
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 389c9be4e791..65e78d3a2f64 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -2123,12 +2123,10 @@ static void __journal_abort_soft (journal_t *journal, int errno)
 
 	__jbd2_journal_abort_hard(journal);
 
-	if (errno) {
-		jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal);
-		write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-		journal->j_flags |= JBD2_REC_ERR;
-		write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-	}
+	jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal);
+	write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+	journal->j_flags |= JBD2_REC_ERR;
+	write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2170,11 +2168,6 @@ static void __journal_abort_soft (journal_t *journal, int errno)
  * failure to disk.  ext3_error, for example, now uses this
  * functionality.
  *
- * Errors which originate from within the journaling layer will NOT
- * supply an errno; a null errno implies that absolutely no further
- * writes are done to the journal (unless there are any already in
- * progress).
- *
  */
 
 void jbd2_journal_abort(journal_t *journal, int errno)