ext4 patches for 4.4.y

Hi Greg and Ted,

I've been looking at ext4 history the past couple of days seeing if the patches that you attempted to apply from 4.17-rc1 were relevant and I noticed a couple from previous 4.x versions that seem like they should be applied here, as they are clean picks and tagged for stable:

74dae4278546 ("ext4: fix crashes in dioread_nolock mode")
c755e251357a ("ext4: fix deadlock between inline_data and ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()")

I've been running them for the day and not had any issues (though I didn't have any before). If there are any objections, let me know!

Quoted 7 lines · Nathan Chancellor

Hi Greg and Ted,

I've been looking at ext4 history the past couple of days seeing if the patches that you attempted to apply from 4.17-rc1 were relevant and I noticed a couple from previous 4.x versions that seem like they should be applied here, as they are clean picks and tagged for stable:

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74dae4278546 ("ext4: fix crashes in dioread_nolock mode")
c755e251357a ("ext4: fix deadlock between inline_data and ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()")

I've been running them for the day and not had any issues (though I didn't have any before). If there are any objections, let me know!

Neither of them apply to the 4.4.y tree, can you send me backports that do work?

thanks,

greg k-h