FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: add missing error check in __ext4_new_inode()" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 996fc4477a0ea28226b30d175f053fb6f9a4fa36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:44:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: add missing error check in __ext4_new_inode()

It's possible for ext4_get_acl() to return an ERR_PTR.  So we need to
add a check for this case in __ext4_new_inode().  Otherwise on an
error we can end up oops the kernel.

This was getting triggered by xfstests generic/388, which is a test
which exercises the shutdown code path.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index b4267d72f249..b32cf263750d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -816,6 +816,8 @@ struct inode *__ext4_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
 #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
 		struct posix_acl *p = get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
 
+		if (IS_ERR(p))
+			return ERR_CAST(p);
 		if (p) {
 			int acl_size = p->a_count * sizeof(ext4_acl_entry);