This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: add check to prevent attempting to resize an fs with sparse_super2 to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-add-check-to-prevent-attempting-to-resize-an-fs-with-sparse_super2.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.