The fix for this is in e2fsprogs 1.41.13, but I strongly recommend you
fix this by going to e2fsprogs 1.41.14, which which has additional bug
fixes.  From the RELEASE-NOTES file:

Fixed a bug in e2fsck where if both the original and backup superblock
are invalid in some way, e2fsck will fail going back to the original
superblock because it didn't close the backup superblock first, and
the exclusive open prevented the file system from being reopened.

So this is a problem that won't occur for a cases of file system
corruption, but for a user that does have both the original and backup
superblocks corrupted, the results are rather catastrophic, since the
only way they will be able to fix it is to boot a rescue CD and then run
e2fsck from that rescue CD.

I can fetch the specific git commit which fixed this bug, but if you're
using e2fsprogs 1.41.12, you really should upgrade...

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  e2fsprogs wrongly identifies ext4 as mounted

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