--- /dev/null
+From eb35c218d83ec0780d9db869310f2e333f628702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:37:06 -0400
+Subject: reiserfs: discard prealloc in reiserfs_delete_inode
+
+From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+
+commit eb35c218d83ec0780d9db869310f2e333f628702 upstream
+
+With the removal of struct file from the xattr code,
+reiserfs_file_release() isn't used anymore, so the prealloc isn't
+discarded. This causes hangs later down the line.
+
+This patch adds it to reiserfs_delete_inode. In most cases it will be a
+no-op due to it already having been called, but will avoid hangs with
+xattrs.
+
+Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+
+---
+ fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
++++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ void reiserfs_delete_inode(struct inode
+ goto out;
+ reiserfs_update_inode_transaction(inode);
+
++ reiserfs_discard_prealloc(&th, inode);
++
+ err = reiserfs_delete_object(&th, inode);
+
+ /* Do quota update inside a transaction for journaled quotas. We must do that