FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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 8bc1379b82b8e809eef77a9fedbb75c6c297be19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:41:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to
 an inline file

Use a separate journal transaction if it turns out that we need to
convert an inline file to use an data block.  Otherwise we could end
up failing due to not having journal credits.

This addresses CVE-2018-10883.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200071

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

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 856b6a54d82b..859d6433dcc1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -3013,9 +3013,6 @@ extern int ext4_inline_data_fiemap(struct inode *inode,
 struct iomap;
 extern int ext4_inline_data_iomap(struct inode *inode, struct iomap *iomap);
 
-extern int ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle_t *handle,
-					 struct inode *inode,
-					 int needed);
 extern int ext4_inline_data_truncate(struct inode *inode, int *has_inline);
 
 extern int ext4_convert_inline_data(struct inode *inode);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c
index d79115d8d716..851bc552d849 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
@@ -887,11 +887,11 @@ int ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
 	flags |= AOP_FLAG_NOFS;
 
 	if (ret == -ENOSPC) {
+		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 		ret = ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent(mapping,
 							    inode,
 							    flags,
 							    fsdata);
-		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 		if (ret == -ENOSPC &&
 		    ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
 			goto retry_journal;
@@ -1891,42 +1891,6 @@ int ext4_inline_data_fiemap(struct inode *inode,
 	return (error < 0 ? error : 0);
 }
 
-/*
- * Called during xattr set, and if we can sparse space 'needed',
- * just create the extent tree evict the data to the outer block.
- *
- * We use jbd2 instead of page cache to move data to the 1st block
- * so that the whole transaction can be committed as a whole and
- * the data isn't lost because of the delayed page cache write.
- */
-int ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle_t *handle,
-				  struct inode *inode,
-				  int needed)
-{
-	int error;
-	struct ext4_xattr_entry *entry;
-	struct ext4_inode *raw_inode;
-	struct ext4_iloc iloc;
-
-	error = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
-	raw_inode = ext4_raw_inode(&iloc);
-	entry = (struct ext4_xattr_entry *)((void *)raw_inode +
-					    EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off);
-	if (EXT4_XATTR_LEN(entry->e_name_len) +
-	    EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(le32_to_cpu(entry->e_value_size)) < needed) {
-		error = -ENOSPC;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	error = ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock(handle, inode, &iloc);
-out:
-	brelse(iloc.bh);
-	return error;
-}
-
 int ext4_inline_data_truncate(struct inode *inode, int *has_inline)
 {
 	handle_t *handle;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 72377b77fbd7..723df14f4084 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -2212,23 +2212,8 @@ int ext4_xattr_ibody_inline_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize == 0)
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s, handle, inode, false /* is_block */);
-	if (error) {
-		if (error == -ENOSPC &&
-		    ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) {
-			error = ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle, inode,
-					EXT4_XATTR_LEN(strlen(i->name) +
-					EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(i->value_len)));
-			if (error)
-				return error;
-			error = ext4_xattr_ibody_find(inode, i, is);
-			if (error)
-				return error;
-			error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s, handle, inode,
-						     false /* is_block */);
-		}
-		if (error)
-			return error;
-	}
+	if (error)
+		return error;
 	header = IHDR(inode, ext4_raw_inode(&is->iloc));
 	if (!IS_LAST_ENTRY(s->first)) {
 		header->h_magic = cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC);