This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: do not use stripe_width if it is not set to the 4.4-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-do-not-use-stripe_width-if-it-is-not-set.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:22:56 CET 2017 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:37:45 +0000 Subject: ext4: do not use stripe_width if it is not set From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5469d7c3087ecaf760f54b447f11af6061b7c897 ] Avoid using stripe_width for sbi->s_stripe value if it is not actually set. It prevents using the stride for sbi->s_stripe. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2499,9 +2499,9 @@ static unsigned long ext4_get_stripe_siz if (sbi->s_stripe && sbi->s_stripe <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group) ret = sbi->s_stripe; - else if (stripe_width <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group) + else if (stripe_width && stripe_width <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group) ret = stripe_width; - else if (stride <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group) + else if (stride && stride <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group) ret = stride; else ret = 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ext4-fix-stripe-unaligned-allocations.patch queue-4.4/ext4-do-not-use-stripe_width-if-it-is-not-set.patch