When expanding the extra isize space, we must never move the system.data xattr out of the inode body. For performance reasons, it doesn't make any sense, and the inline data implementation assumes that system.data xattr is never in the external xattr block. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200005 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 0263692979ec..72377b77fbd7 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -2657,6 +2657,11 @@ static int ext4_xattr_make_inode_space(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, last = IFIRST(header); /* Find the entry best suited to be pushed into EA block */ for (; !IS_LAST_ENTRY(last); last = EXT4_XATTR_NEXT(last)) { + /* never move system.data out of the inode */ + if ((last->e_name_len == 4) && + (last->e_name_index == EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SYSTEM) && + !memcmp(last->e_name, "data", 4)) + continue; total_size = EXT4_XATTR_LEN(last->e_name_len); if (!last->e_value_inum) total_size += EXT4_XATTR_SIZE( -- 2.18.0.rc0
