--- /dev/null
+From 97795d2a5b8d3c8dc4365d4bd3404191840453ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
+Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:59:40 -0400
+Subject: ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative
+
+From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
+
+commit 97795d2a5b8d3c8dc4365d4bd3404191840453ba upstream.
+
+If we hit a condition where we have allocated metadata blocks that
+were not appropriately reserved, we risk underflow of
+ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks. In turn, this can throw
+sbi->s_dirtyclusters_counter significantly out of whack and undermine
+the nondelalloc fallback logic in ext4_nonda_switch(). Warn if this
+occurs and set i_allocated_meta_blocks to avoid this problem.
+
+This condition is reproduced by xfstests 270 against ext2 with
+delalloc enabled:
+
+Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [ 171.526344] EXT4-fs (loop1): delayed block allocation failed for inode 14 at logical offset 64486 with max blocks 64 with error -28
+Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [ 171.526346] EXT4-fs (loop1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
+
+270 ultimately fails with an inconsistent filesystem and requires an
+fsck to repair. The cause of the error is an underflow in
+ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to an unreserved meta block
+allocation.
+
+Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ fs/ext4/inode.c | 9 +++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
++++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
+@@ -1134,6 +1134,15 @@ void ext4_da_update_reserve_space(struct
+ used = ei->i_reserved_data_blocks;
+ }
+
++ if (unlikely(ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks > ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks)) {
++ ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_NOTICE, "%s: ino %lu, allocated %d "
++ "with only %d reserved metadata blocks\n", __func__,
++ inode->i_ino, ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks,
++ ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks);
++ WARN_ON(1);
++ ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks = ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks;
++ }
++
+ /* Update per-inode reservations */
+ ei->i_reserved_data_blocks -= used;
+ ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks -= ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks;