Re: [PATCH] xfs: Initialize all quota inodes to be NULLFSINO

[Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:47:45PM -0500, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> 
> mkfs doesn't initialize the quota inodes to NULLFSINO as it
> does for the other internal inodes. This leads to check for two
> values (0 and NULLFSINO) to make sure if a quota inode is
> valid.
> 
> Solve that problem by initializing the values to NULLFSINO
> if they are 0.
> 
> Note that these values are not written back to on-disk
> superblock unless some quota is enabled on the filesystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> index 2b0ba35..8b95933 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> @@ -572,6 +572,18 @@ out_unwind:
>  static void
>  xfs_sb_quota_from_disk(struct xfs_sb *sbp)
>  {
> +     /*
> +      * older mkfs doesn't initialize quota inodes to NULLFSINO,
> +      * which leads to two values for a quota inode to be invalid:
> +      * 0 and NULLFSINO. Fix it.
> +      */
> +     if (sbp->sb_uquotino == 0)
> +             sbp->sb_uquotino = NULLFSINO;
> +     if (sbp->sb_gquotino == 0)
> +             sbp->sb_gquotino = NULLFSINO;
> +     if (sbp->sb_pquotino == 0)
> +             sbp->sb_pquotino = NULLFSINO;
> +
>       if (sbp->sb_qflags & XFS_OQUOTA_ENFD)
>               sbp->sb_qflags |= (sbp->sb_qflags & XFS_PQUOTA_ACCT) ?
>                                       XFS_PQUOTA_ENFD : XFS_GQUOTA_ENFD;
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
Hi,

in this case, wouldn't be better to make mkfs initialize the quota inodes with
NULLFSINO instead of need to convert it into kernel?

-- 
Carlos