--- /dev/null
+From b2569260d55228b617bd82aba6d0db2faeeb4116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:49:31 -0400
+Subject: ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure starting a reserved handle
+
+From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+commit b2569260d55228b617bd82aba6d0db2faeeb4116 upstream.
+
+If ext4 tries to start a reserved handle via
+jbd2_journal_start_reserved(), and the journal has been aborted, this
+can result in a NULL pointer dereference. This is because the fields
+h_journal and h_transaction in the handle structure share the same
+memory, via a union, so jbd2_journal_start_reserved() will clear
+h_journal before calling start_this_handle(). If this function fails
+due to an aborted handle, h_journal will still be NULL, and the call
+to jbd2_journal_free_reserved() will pass a NULL journal to
+sub_reserve_credits().
+
+This can be reproduced by running "kvm-xfstests -c dioread_nolock
+generic/475".
+
+Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.11
+Fixes: 8f7d89f36829b ("jbd2: transaction reservation support")
+Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
+Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
++++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_reserved(handle_t
+ */
+ ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle, GFP_NOFS);
+ if (ret < 0) {
++ handle->h_journal = journal;
+ jbd2_journal_free_reserved(handle);
+ return ret;
+ }