diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 43a681be6cf5f6adb030716c43177de113746817..49dfaf5b0529e685739796fdf7174be097177316 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@
 #endif
 #endif
 
+#define NL_EXT4_ERROR_GROUP    1
+#define EXT4_ERROR_MAGIC       0xAE32014U
+struct ext4_err_msg {
+	int magic;
+	char s_id[32];
+	unsigned long s_flags;
+	int ext4_errno;
+};
+
 /*
  * The fourth extended filesystem constants/structures
  */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 464f8b21f11146838471579fbc7ea7fddf5f9f26..c9187cc849def787c0daf7ae8b950594ea50e285 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@
 #include "mballoc.h"
 #include "fsmap.h"
 
+#include <uapi/linux/netlink.h>
+#include <net/sock.h>
+#include <net/net_namespace.h>
+
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/events/ext4.h>
 
@@ -84,6 +88,8 @@ static void ext4_unregister_li_request(struct super_block *sb);
 static void ext4_clear_request_list(void);
 static struct inode *ext4_get_journal_inode(struct super_block *sb,
 					    unsigned int journal_inum);
+static void ext4_netlink_send_info(struct super_block *sb, int ext4_errno);
+static struct sock *ext4nl;
 
 /*
  * Lock ordering
@@ -438,6 +444,42 @@ static bool system_going_down(void)
 		|| system_state == SYSTEM_RESTART;
 }
 
+static void ext4_netlink_send_info(struct super_block *sb, int ext4_errno)
+{
+	int size;
+	sk_buff_data_t old_tail;
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+	struct ext4_err_msg *msg;
+
+	if (ext4nl) {
+		size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct ext4_err_msg));
+		skb = alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (!skb) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "Cannot alloc skb!");
+			return;
+		}
+		old_tail = skb->tail;
+		nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, NLMSG_ERROR, size - sizeof(*nlh), 0);
+		if (!nlh)
+			goto nlmsg_failure;
+		msg = (struct ext4_err_msg *)NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
+		msg->magic = EXT4_ERROR_MAGIC;
+		memcpy(msg->s_id, sb->s_id, sizeof(sb->s_id));
+		msg->s_flags = sb->s_flags;
+		msg->ext4_errno = ext4_errno;
+		nlh->nlmsg_len = skb->tail - old_tail;
+		NETLINK_CB(skb).portid = 0;
+		NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = NL_EXT4_ERROR_GROUP;
+		netlink_broadcast(ext4nl, skb, 0, NL_EXT4_ERROR_GROUP,
+		 GFP_ATOMIC);
+		return;
+nlmsg_failure:
+		if (skb)
+			kfree_skb(skb);
+	}
+}
+
 /* Deal with the reporting of failure conditions on a filesystem such as
  * inconsistencies detected or read IO failures.
  *
@@ -468,6 +510,9 @@ static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
 		if (journal)
 			jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
 	}
+
+	ext4_netlink_send_info(sb, 1);
+
 	/*
 	 * We force ERRORS_RO behavior when system is rebooting. Otherwise we
 	 * could panic during 'reboot -f' as the underlying device got already
@@ -699,6 +744,7 @@ void __ext4_abort(struct super_block *sb, const char *function,
 		if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal)
 			jbd2_journal_abort(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
 		save_error_info(sb, function, line);
+		ext4_netlink_send_info(sb, 2);
 	}
 	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC) && !system_going_down()) {
 		if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal &&
@@ -6026,6 +6072,7 @@ wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
 static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
 {
 	int i, err;
+	struct netlink_kernel_cfg cfg = {.groups = NL_EXT4_ERROR_GROUP,};
 
 	ratelimit_state_init(&ext4_mount_msg_ratelimit, 30 * HZ, 64);
 	ext4_li_info = NULL;
@@ -6065,6 +6112,9 @@ static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
+	ext4nl = netlink_kernel_create(&init_net, NETLINK_FILESYSTEM, &cfg);
+	if (!ext4nl)
+		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: Cannot create netlink socket.\n");
 	return 0;
 out:
 	unregister_as_ext2();
@@ -6096,6 +6146,7 @@ static void __exit ext4_exit_fs(void)
 	ext4_exit_system_zone();
 	ext4_exit_pageio();
 	ext4_exit_es();
+	netlink_kernel_release(ext4nl);
 }
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others");
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
index 776bc92e91180725e75f0291b1635234d6b6875f..ecaefeeb35cd4c4d40c53205751ac82580447adb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #define NETLINK_RDMA		20
 #define NETLINK_CRYPTO		21	/* Crypto layer */
 #define NETLINK_SMC		22	/* SMC monitoring */
+#define NETLINK_FILESYSTEM	28	/* filesystem alarm*/
 
 #define NETLINK_INET_DIAG	NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG