6.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Luis Henriques (SUSE) <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxx> commit 04e6ce8f06d161399e5afde3df5dcfa9455b4952 upstream. Calling ext4_fc_mark_ineligible() with a NULL handle is racy and may result in a fast-commit being done before the filesystem is effectively marked as ineligible. This patch moves the call to this function so that an handle can be used. If a transaction fails to start, then there's not point in trying to mark the filesystem as ineligible, and an error will eventually be returned to user-space. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE) <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240923104909.18342-3-luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -2559,6 +2559,8 @@ retry: error = ext4_xattr_set_handle(handle, inode, name_index, name, value, value_len, flags); + ext4_fc_mark_ineligible(inode->i_sb, EXT4_FC_REASON_XATTR, + handle); error2 = ext4_journal_stop(handle); if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(sb, &retries)) @@ -2566,7 +2568,6 @@ retry: if (error == 0) error = error2; } - ext4_fc_mark_ineligible(inode->i_sb, EXT4_FC_REASON_XATTR, NULL); return error; }