--- /dev/null
+From 109f9ac01393e2c1e1a18683396191a8e0c2e8ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:38:55 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] ext4: avoid deadlock when expanding inode size
+
+From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+
+[ Upstream commit 2e81a4eeedcaa66e35f58b81e0755b87057ce392 ]
+
+When we need to move xattrs into external xattr block, we call
+ext4_xattr_block_set() from ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea(). That may end
+up calling ext4_mark_inode_dirty() again which will recurse back into
+the inode expansion code leading to deadlocks.
+
+Protect from recursion using EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND inode flag and move
+its management into ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea() since its manipulation
+is safe there (due to xattr_sem) from possible races with
+ext4_xattr_set_handle() which plays with it as well.
+
+Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 --
+ fs/ext4/xattr.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
+ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
++++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
+@@ -4895,8 +4895,6 @@ int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *hand
+ sbi->s_want_extra_isize,
+ iloc, handle);
+ if (ret) {
+- ext4_set_inode_state(inode,
+- EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND);
+ if (mnt_count !=
+ le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_mnt_count)) {
+ ext4_warning(inode->i_sb,
+--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
++++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+@@ -1291,11 +1291,13 @@ int ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea(struct in
+ int s_min_extra_isize = le16_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es->s_min_extra_isize);
+
+ down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
++ /*
++ * Set EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND to avoid recursion when marking inode dirty
++ */
++ ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND);
+ retry:
+- if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize >= new_extra_isize) {
+- up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
+- return 0;
+- }
++ if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize >= new_extra_isize)
++ goto out;
+
+ header = IHDR(inode, raw_inode);
+ entry = IFIRST(header);
+@@ -1324,8 +1326,7 @@ retry:
+ (void *)header, total_ino,
+ inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
+ EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize = new_extra_isize;
+- error = 0;
+- goto cleanup;
++ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /*
+@@ -1485,6 +1486,8 @@ retry:
+ kfree(bs);
+ }
+ brelse(bh);
++out:
++ ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND);
+ up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
+ return 0;
+
+@@ -1496,6 +1499,10 @@ cleanup:
+ kfree(is);
+ kfree(bs);
+ brelse(bh);
++ /*
++ * We deliberately leave EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND set here since inode
++ * size expansion failed.
++ */
+ up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
+ return error;
+ }