linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/9] quota: fix e2fsck so we update the quota file correctly

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 23:35:20 -0700
From:	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] quota: fix e2fsck so we update the quota file correctly

Looks good.

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> In scan_dquota_callback() we were copying dqb_off from the on-disk
> dquot structure to the dqot structure that we have constructed in
> memory.  This is a bad idea, because if we detect that the quota inode
> is corrupted and needs to be replaced, when we later write out the
> inode, the fact that we have a non-zero dqb_off value means that quota
> routines will not bother updating the quota tree index, since
> presumably the quota tree index already has an entry for this dqot.
>
> The problem is that e2fsck, the only user of these functions, has
> zapped the quota inode so it can be written from scratch.  So this
> means the index for the quota records are not written out, so the
> kernel can not find any of the records in the quota inodes.  Oops.
>
> The fix is simple; there is no reason to copy the dqb_off field into
> the quota_dict copy of struct dquot.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> Cc: adityakali@...gle.com

Reviewed-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>

Thanks!

> ---
>  lib/quota/mkquota.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/quota/mkquota.c b/lib/quota/mkquota.c
> index 3849ae1..f77e072 100644
> --- a/lib/quota/mkquota.c
> +++ b/lib/quota/mkquota.c
> @@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ static int scan_dquots_callback(struct dquot *dquot, void *cb_data)
>
>         dq = get_dq(quota_dict, dquot->dq_id);
>         dq->dq_id = dquot->dq_id;
> -       dq->dq_dqb.u.v2_mdqb.dqb_off = dquot->dq_dqb.u.v2_mdqb.dqb_off;
>
>         print_dquot("mem", dq);
>         print_dquot("dsk", dquot);
> --
> 1.9.0
>



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Aditya
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