FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: forcibly reset quota timers when upgrading to bigtime" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 780212c8d8105eadb5f56b4c7aafb94937755582
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110434-purist-sureness-e19b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 780212c8d8105eadb5f56b4c7aafb94937755582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 22:56:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: forcibly reset quota timers when upgrading to bigtime
 during repair

If we decide to upgrade a dquot to BIGTIME as part of repairing it, we
should zero out the timer fields so that they are re-evaluated and reset
in bigtime format instead of letting through whatever was in there
before.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8
Fixes: a5b91555403e3a ("xfs: repair quotas")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LOLLM # finding obvious bugs
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/quota_repair.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/quota_repair.c
index 6a2b3271264c..fd14d81ee4e9 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/quota_repair.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/quota_repair.c
@@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ xrep_quota_block(
 	bp->b_ops = &xfs_dquot_buf_ops;
 	for (i = 0; i < qi->qi_dqperchunk; i++, dqblk++) {
 		struct xfs_disk_dquot	*ddq = &dqblk->dd_diskdq;
+		bool			was_bigtime =
+				!!(ddq->d_type & XFS_DQTYPE_BIGTIME);
 
 		trace_xrep_disk_dquot(sc->mp, dqtype, id + i);
 
@@ -351,8 +353,21 @@ xrep_quota_block(
 		ddq->d_type = dqtype;
 		ddq->d_id = cpu_to_be32(id + i);
 
-		if (xfs_has_bigtime(sc->mp) && ddq->d_id)
+		if (xfs_has_bigtime(sc->mp) && ddq->d_id) {
+			/*
+			 * If something was broken with this dquot and it was a
+			 * non-bigtime dquot, we'll grant everyone a fresh
+			 * grace period by zeroing the timer field rather than
+			 * try to interpret what might be garbage.
+			 */
+			if (!was_bigtime) {
+				ddq->d_btimer = 0;
+				ddq->d_itimer = 0;
+				ddq->d_rtbtimer = 0;
+			}
+
 			ddq->d_type |= XFS_DQTYPE_BIGTIME;
+		}
 
 		xrep_quota_fix_timer(sc->mp, ddq, ddq->d_blk_softlimit,
 				ddq->d_bcount, &ddq->d_btimer,