WTF: patch "[PATCH] quota: Generate warnings for DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL allocations" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree?

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

>From ac3d79392f8c2728f7600dd32ed88b3a1bfdc1af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:40:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] quota: Generate warnings for DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL allocations

Eryu has reported that since commit 7b9ca4c61bc2 "quota: Reduce
contention on dq_data_lock" test generic/233 occasionally fails. This is
caused by the fact that since that commit we don't generate warning and
set grace time for quota allocations that have DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL set
(these are for example some metadata allocations in ext4). We need these
allocations to behave regularly wrt warning generation and grace time
setting so fix the code to return to the original behavior.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 7b9ca4c61bc278b771fb57d6290a31ab1fc7fdac
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 50b0556a124f..52ad15192e72 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -1297,21 +1297,18 @@ static int dquot_add_space(struct dquot *dquot, qsize_t space,
 	spin_lock(&dquot->dq_dqb_lock);
 	if (!sb_has_quota_limits_enabled(sb, dquot->dq_id.type) ||
 	    test_bit(DQ_FAKE_B, &dquot->dq_flags))
-		goto add;
+		goto finish;
 
 	tspace = dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_curspace + dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_rsvspace
 		+ space + rsv_space;
 
-	if (flags & DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL)
-		goto add;
-
 	if (dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_bhardlimit &&
 	    tspace > dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_bhardlimit &&
             !ignore_hardlimit(dquot)) {
 		if (flags & DQUOT_SPACE_WARN)
 			prepare_warning(warn, dquot, QUOTA_NL_BHARDWARN);
 		ret = -EDQUOT;
-		goto out;
+		goto finish;
 	}
 
 	if (dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_bsoftlimit &&
@@ -1322,7 +1319,7 @@ static int dquot_add_space(struct dquot *dquot, qsize_t space,
 		if (flags & DQUOT_SPACE_WARN)
 			prepare_warning(warn, dquot, QUOTA_NL_BSOFTLONGWARN);
 		ret = -EDQUOT;
-		goto out;
+		goto finish;
 	}
 
 	if (dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_bsoftlimit &&
@@ -1338,13 +1335,21 @@ static int dquot_add_space(struct dquot *dquot, qsize_t space,
 			 * be always printed
 			 */
 			ret = -EDQUOT;
-			goto out;
+			goto finish;
 		}
 	}
-add:
-	dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_rsvspace += rsv_space;
-	dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_curspace += space;
-out:
+finish:
+	/*
+	 * We have to be careful and go through warning generation & grace time
+	 * setting even if DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL is set. That's why we check it
+	 * only here...
+	 */
+	if (flags & DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL)
+		ret = 0;
+	if (!ret) {
+		dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_rsvspace += rsv_space;
+		dquot->dq_dqb.dqb_curspace += space;
+	}
 	spin_unlock(&dquot->dq_dqb_lock);
 	return ret;
 }