This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: fix to clear FI_NO_PREALLOC 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: f2fs-fix-to-clear-fi_no_prealloc.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. >From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017 From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:32:39 +0800 Subject: f2fs: fix to clear FI_NO_PREALLOC From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 28cfafb73853f0494b06649716687a3ea07681d5 ] We need to clear FI_NO_PREALLOC flag in error path of f2fs_file_write_iter, otherwise we will lose the chance to preallocate blocks in latter write() at one time. Fixes: dc91de78e5e1 ("f2fs: do not preallocate blocks which has wrong buffer") Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/file.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c @@ -2697,6 +2697,7 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_file_write_iter(stru err = f2fs_preallocate_blocks(iocb, from); if (err) { + clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_NO_PREALLOC); inode_unlock(inode); return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/f2fs-fix-to-clear-fi_no_prealloc.patch