3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 625ef8a3acd111d5f496d190baf99d1a815bd03e upstream. Variable retries is not initialized in ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin() which can lead to nondeterministic number of retries in case we hit ENOSPC. Initialize retries to zero as we do everywhere else. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Fixes: bc0ca9df3b2a ("ext4: retry allocation when inline->extent conversion failed") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inline.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ int ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin(stru handle_t *handle; struct page *page; struct ext4_iloc iloc; - int retries; + int retries = 0; ret = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc); if (ret)