diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bfa56f8bb..00176aa72 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ linux (3.10.5-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * [hppa] udeb: Add core-modules package (Closes: #718270)
   * nl80211: fix another nl80211_fam.attrbuf race
   * Bump ABI to 2
+  * ext4: fix retry handling in ext4_ext_truncate()
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:09:20 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/bugfix/all/ext4-fix-retry-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch b/debian/patches/bugfix/all/ext4-fix-retry-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..760668539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/bugfix/all/ext4-fix-retry-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:12:56 +0000
+Subject: ext4: fix retry handling in ext4_ext_truncate()
+Origin: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?id=94eec0fc3520c759831763d866421b4d60b599b4
+
+We tested for ENOMEM instead of -ENOMEM.   Oops.
+
+Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
+Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
+---
+--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
++++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
+@@ -4389,7 +4389,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(handle_t *handle,
+ retry:
+ 	err = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, last_block,
+ 				    EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - last_block);
+-	if (err == ENOMEM) {
++	if (err == -ENOMEM) {
+ 		cond_resched();
+ 		congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+ 		goto retry;
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 02fb64bf7..12e26c5e3 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -112,3 +112,4 @@ bugfix/m68k/ethernat-kconfig.patch
 
 debian/sparc-cpufreq-convince-genksyms-that-the-abi-didnt-change.patch
 bugfix/all/nl80211-fix-another-nl80211_fam-attrbuf-race.patch
+bugfix/all/ext4-fix-retry-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch