This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: allow to set compression for inlined file to the 6.1-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: f2fs-allow-to-set-compression-for-inlined-file.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6acbb443f29f4dcda9b0f9a0c656da93b6e63fa5 Author: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 24 16:00:35 2022 -0700 f2fs: allow to set compression for inlined file [ Upstream commit a995627e6dd81d4485d40ce64880017a080d71e6 ] The below commit disallows to set compression on empty created file which has a inline_data. Let's fix it. Fixes: 7165841d578e ("f2fs: fix to check inline_data during compressed inode conversion") Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c index 82cda1258227..f96bbfa8b399 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c @@ -1915,6 +1915,10 @@ static int f2fs_setflags_common(struct inode *inode, u32 iflags, u32 mask) if (!f2fs_disable_compressed_file(inode)) return -EINVAL; } else { + /* try to convert inline_data to support compression */ + int err = f2fs_convert_inline_inode(inode); + if (err) + return err; if (!f2fs_may_compress(inode)) return -EINVAL; if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && F2FS_HAS_BLOCKS(inode))