linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] quota: Turn quotas off when remounting read-only

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Message-Id: <20080207103655.14ce8512.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:36:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quota: Turn quotas off when remounting read-only

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:37:21 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:

> Turn off quotas before filesystem is remounted read only. Otherwise quota will
> try to write to read-only filesystem which does no good... We could also just
> refuse to remount ro when quota is enabled but turning quota off is consistent
> with what we do on umount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> ---
> Andrew, this should fix the hang reported... Please apply. Thanks.
> 
> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
> index ceaf2e3..945c322 100644
> --- a/fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/super.c
> @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force)
>  			mark_files_ro(sb);
>  		else if (!fs_may_remount_ro(sb))
>  			return -EBUSY;
> +		DQUOT_OFF(sb);
>  	}
>  
>  	if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) {

Cool.  And this is applicable to 2.6.23, 2.6.22 and even earlier, isn't it?
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