Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: null unused quota inodes when quota is on

["Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz" <arekm@maven.pl>]

On Friday 11 of July 2014, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> When quota is on, it is expected that unused quota inodes have a
> value of NULLFSINO. The changes to support a separate project quota
> in 3.12 broken this rule for non-project quota inode enabled
> filesystem, as the code now refuses to write the group quota inode
> if neither group or project quotas are enabled. This regression was
> introduced by commit d892d58 ("xfs: Start using pquotaino from the
> superblock").
> 
> In this case, we should be writing NULLFSINO rather than nothing to
> ensure that we leave the group quota inode in a valid state while
> quotas are enabled.
> 
> Failure to do so doesn't cause a current kernel to break - the
> separate project quota inodes introduced translation code to always
> treat a zero inode as NULLFSINO. This was introduced by commit
> 0102629 ("xfs: Initialize all quota inodes to be NULLFSINO") with is
> also in 3.12 but older kernels do not do this and hence taking a
> filesystem back to an older kernel can result in quotas failing
> initialisation at mount time. When that happens, we see this in
> dmesg:
> 
> [ 1649.215390] XFS (sdb): Mounting Filesystem
> [ 1649.316894] XFS (sdb): Failed to initialize disk quotas.
> [ 1649.316902] XFS (sdb): Ending clean mount
> 
> By ensuring that we write NULLFSINO to quota inodes that aren't
> active, we avoid this problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c
> index c3453b1..9a58699 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c
> @@ -483,10 +483,16 @@ xfs_sb_quota_to_disk(
>  	}
> 
>  	/*
> -	 * GQUOTINO and PQUOTINO cannot be used together in versions
> -	 * of superblock that do not have pquotino. from->sb_flags
> -	 * tells us which quota is active and should be copied to
> -	 * disk.
> +	 * GQUOTINO and PQUOTINO cannot be used together in versions of
> +	 * superblock that do not have pquotino. from->sb_flags tells us which
> +	 * quota is active and should be copied to disk. If neither are active,
> +	 * make sure we write NULLFSINO to the sb_gquotino field as a quota
> +	 * inode value of "0" is invalid when the XFS_SB_VERSION_QUOTA feature
> +	 * bit is set.
> +	 *
> +	 * Note that we don't need to handle the sb_uquotino or sb_pquotino here
> +	 * as they do not require any translation. Hence the main sb field loop
> +	 * will write them appropriately from the in-core superblock.
>  	 */
>  	if ((*fields & XFS_SB_GQUOTINO) &&
>  				(from->sb_qflags & XFS_GQUOTA_ACCT))
> @@ -494,6 +500,8 @@ xfs_sb_quota_to_disk(
>  	else if ((*fields & XFS_SB_PQUOTINO) &&
>  				(from->sb_qflags & XFS_PQUOTA_ACCT))
>  		to->sb_gquotino = cpu_to_be64(from->sb_pquotino);
> +	else
> +		to->sb_gquotino = cpu_to_be64(NULLFSINO);
> 
>  	*fields &= ~(XFS_SB_PQUOTINO | XFS_SB_GQUOTINO);
>  }


Tested-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>

3.16.0-rc4-00120-g85d90fa + patch

$ truncate -s 50M 50M-image
$ mkfs.xfs -f 50M-image 
meta-data=50M-image              isize=256    agcount=2, agsize=6400 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=0        finobt=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=12800, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=0
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=853, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
$ xfs_db 50M-image  -c "sb 0" -c "print" |grep quot
uquotino = 0
gquotino = 0
pquotino = 0
$ sudo mount 50M-image /media/floppy/ -o usrquota
[sudo] password for arekm: 
$ dmesg|tail -n 4
[   98.413877] XFS (loop0): Mounting V4 Filesystem
[   98.445950] XFS (loop0): Ending clean mount
[   98.445987] XFS (loop0): Quotacheck needed: Please wait.
[   98.469666] XFS (loop0): Quotacheck: Done.
$ sudo umount /media/floppy/
]$ xfs_db 50M-image  -c "sb 0" -c "print" |grep quot                                                                                                        
uquotino = 131                                                                                                                                                              
gquotino = null                                                                                                                                                             
pquotino = 0                                                        

and it properly mounted on 3.10.46 with usrquota,grpquota

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl

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