FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: fix a problem of using memory after free" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: Yunlei He <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:10:48 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: fix a problem of using memory after free

This patch fix a problem of using memory after free in function __try_merge_extent_node.

index 4db44da7ef69..e02c3d88dc9a 100644
@@ -352,11 +352,12 @@ static struct extent_node *__try_merge_extent_node(struct inode *inode,
 	}
 
 	if (next_ex && __is_front_mergeable(ei, &next_ex->ei)) {
-		if (en)
-			__release_extent_node(sbi, et, prev_ex);
 		next_ex->ei.fofs = ei->fofs;
 		next_ex->ei.blk = ei->blk;
 		next_ex->ei.len += ei->len;
+		if (en)
+			__release_extent_node(sbi, et, prev_ex);
+
 		en = next_ex;
 	}