diff -drupN a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c	2018-08-06 17:23:04.000000000 +0300
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c	2022-06-12 05:28:14.000000000 +0300
@@ -207,14 +207,15 @@ ext4_xattr_check_block(struct inode *ino
 {
 	int error;
 
-	if (buffer_verified(bh))
-		return 0;
-
 	if (BHDR(bh)->h_magic != cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC) ||
 	    BHDR(bh)->h_blocks != cpu_to_le32(1))
 		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
 	if (!ext4_xattr_block_csum_verify(inode, bh))
 		return -EFSBADCRC;
+
+	if (buffer_verified(bh))
+		return 0;
+
 	error = ext4_xattr_check_names(BFIRST(bh), bh->b_data + bh->b_size,
 				       bh->b_data);
 	if (!error)
@@ -681,7 +682,7 @@ ext4_xattr_set_entry(struct ext4_xattr_i
 		s->here->e_name_len = name_len;
 		memcpy(s->here->e_name, i->name, name_len);
 	} else {
-		if (s->here->e_value_size) {
+		if (!s->not_found && s->here->e_value_size && s->here->e_value_offs) {
 			void *first_val = s->base + min_offs;
 			size_t offs = le16_to_cpu(s->here->e_value_offs);
 			void *val = s->base + offs;
@@ -1078,22 +1079,8 @@ int ext4_xattr_ibody_inline_set(handle_t
 	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize == 0)
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s);
-	if (error) {
-		if (error == -ENOSPC &&
-		    ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) {
-			error = ext4_try_to_evict_inline_data(handle, inode,
-					EXT4_XATTR_LEN(strlen(i->name) +
-					EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(i->value_len)));
-			if (error)
-				return error;
-			error = ext4_xattr_ibody_find(inode, i, is);
-			if (error)
-				return error;
-			error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s);
-		}
-		if (error)
-			return error;
-	}
+	if (error)
+		return error;
 	header = IHDR(inode, ext4_raw_inode(&is->iloc));
 	if (!IS_LAST_ENTRY(s->first)) {
 		header->h_magic = cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC);
@@ -1424,6 +1411,11 @@ static int ext4_xattr_make_inode_space(h
 		last = IFIRST(header);
 		/* Find the entry best suited to be pushed into EA block */
 		for (; !IS_LAST_ENTRY(last); last = EXT4_XATTR_NEXT(last)) {
+			/* never move system.data out of the inode */
+			if ((last->e_name_len == 4) &&
+				(last->e_name_index == EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SYSTEM) &&
+				!memcmp(last->e_name, "data", 4))
+				continue;
 			total_size =
 			EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(le32_to_cpu(last->e_value_size)) +
 					EXT4_XATTR_LEN(last->e_name_len);