--- /dev/null
+From 18db4b4e6fc31eda838dd1c1296d67dbcb3dc957 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:10:35 -0400
+Subject: ext4: don't allow r/w mounts if metadata blocks overlap the superblock
+
+From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+commit 18db4b4e6fc31eda838dd1c1296d67dbcb3dc957 upstream.
+
+If some metadata block, such as an allocation bitmap, overlaps the
+superblock, it's very likely that if the file system is mounted
+read/write, the results will not be pretty. So disallow r/w mounts
+for file systems corrupted in this particular way.
+
+Backport notes:
+3.18.y is missing bc98a42c1f7d ("VFS: Convert sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)")
+and e462ec50cb5f ("VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags")
+so we simply use the sb MS_RDONLY check from pre bc98a42c1f7d in place of the sb_rdonly
+function used in the upstream variant of the patch.
+
+Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
+Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya <harsh@prjkt.io>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
++++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
+@@ -2260,6 +2260,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
+ "Block bitmap for group %u overlaps "
+ "superblock", i);
++ if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
++ return 0;
+ }
+ if (block_bitmap < first_block || block_bitmap > last_block) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
+@@ -2272,6 +2274,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
+ "Inode bitmap for group %u overlaps "
+ "superblock", i);
++ if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
++ return 0;
+ }
+ if (inode_bitmap < first_block || inode_bitmap > last_block) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
+@@ -2284,6 +2288,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
+ "Inode table for group %u overlaps "
+ "superblock", i);
++ if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
++ return 0;
+ }
+ if (inode_table < first_block ||
+ inode_table + sbi->s_itb_per_group - 1 > last_block) {