Re: [PATCH] ovl: do not ignore disk quota if current task is not privileged

Vivek Goyal
2017-01-10T16:35:17Z

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:26:48PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> > If overlay was mounted by root then quota set for upper layer does not work
> > because overlay now always use mounter's credentials for operations.
> >
>
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> So CAP_SYS_RESOURCE bypasses the quota checks?
>
> I just created dir upper on xfs filesystem and defined quota of 1G and
> as root user (with cap_sys_resoureces), I am not able to create file
> bigger than 1g in that dir. So looks like xfs quota took affect even
> for privileged user with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE set.
>
> What am I missing?

As root user, I set limit of 1G on work/ and upper/ dir and created
a file of 4G in lower/ dir and mounted overlay on "merged" dir and
did "touch zerofile", and go error message.

touch: cannot touch 'zerofile': No space left on device

So looks like I am doing something wrong and not be able to reproduce
the issue to begin with.

Vivek