4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit eb6984fa4ce2837dcb1f66720a600f31b0bb3739 upstream. According to Ted Ts'o ext4_getblk() called in ext4_xattr_inode_write() should not return bh = NULL The only time that bh could be NULL, then, would be in the case of something really going wrong; a programming error elsewhere (perhaps a wild pointer dereference) or I/O error causing on-disk file system corruption (although that would be highly unlikely given that we had *just* allocated the blocks and so the metadata blocks in question probably would still be in the cache). Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 4.13 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1387,6 +1387,12 @@ retry: bh = ext4_getblk(handle, ea_inode, block, 0); if (IS_ERR(bh)) return PTR_ERR(bh); + if (!bh) { + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); + EXT4_ERROR_INODE(ea_inode, + "ext4_getblk() return bh = NULL"); + return -EFSCORRUPTED; + } ret = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh); if (ret) goto out;