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diff --git a/ext4-fix-races-between-buffered-IO-and-collapse-inse.patch b/ext4-fix-races-between-buffered-IO-and-collapse-inse.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c89ea77a..000000000
--- a/ext4-fix-races-between-buffered-IO-and-collapse-inse.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-From 32ebffd3bbb4162da5ff88f9a35dd32d0a28ea70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
-Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:31:11 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH 3/4] ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert
- range
-
-Current code implementing FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE and
-FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE is prone to races with buffered writes and page
-faults. If buffered write or write via mmap manages to squeeze between
-filemap_write_and_wait_range() and truncate_pagecache() in the fallocate
-implementations, the written data is simply discarded by
-truncate_pagecache() although it should have been shifted.
-
-Fix the problem by moving filemap_write_and_wait_range() call inside
-i_mutex and i_mmap_sem. That way we are protected against races with
-both buffered writes and page faults.
-
-Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
-Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
----
- fs/ext4/extents.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
-index 65b5ada2833f..4b105c96df08 100644
---- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
-+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
-@@ -5487,21 +5487,7 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
- return ret;
- }
-
-- /*
-- * Need to round down offset to be aligned with page size boundary
-- * for page size > block size.
-- */
-- ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
--
-- /* Write out all dirty pages */
-- ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
-- LLONG_MAX);
-- if (ret)
-- return ret;
--
-- /* Take mutex lock */
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
--
- /*
- * There is no need to overlap collapse range with EOF, in which case
- * it is effectively a truncate operation
-@@ -5526,6 +5512,27 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
- * page cache.
- */
- down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
-+ /*
-+ * Need to round down offset to be aligned with page size boundary
-+ * for page size > block size.
-+ */
-+ ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
-+ /*
-+ * Write tail of the last page before removed range since it will get
-+ * removed from the page cache below.
-+ */
-+ ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset, offset);
-+ if (ret)
-+ goto out_mmap;
-+ /*
-+ * Write data that will be shifted to preserve them when discarding
-+ * page cache below. We are also protected from pages becoming dirty
-+ * by i_mmap_sem.
-+ */
-+ ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, offset + len,
-+ LLONG_MAX);
-+ if (ret)
-+ goto out_mmap;
- truncate_pagecache(inode, ioffset);
-
- credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
-@@ -5626,21 +5633,7 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
- return ret;
- }
-
-- /*
-- * Need to round down to align start offset to page size boundary
-- * for page size > block size.
-- */
-- ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
--
-- /* Write out all dirty pages */
-- ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
-- LLONG_MAX);
-- if (ret)
-- return ret;
--
-- /* Take mutex lock */
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
--
- /* Currently just for extent based files */
- if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
- ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-@@ -5668,6 +5661,16 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
- * page cache.
- */
- down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
-+ /*
-+ * Need to round down to align start offset to page size boundary
-+ * for page size > block size.
-+ */
-+ ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
-+ /* Write out all dirty pages */
-+ ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
-+ LLONG_MAX);
-+ if (ret)
-+ goto out_mmap;
- truncate_pagecache(inode, ioffset);
-
- credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
---
-2.5.5
-