linux-ext4 - [PATCH 06/11] ext4: Avoid starting transaction on read-only fs in ext4_quota

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Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:50:52 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 06/11] ext4: Avoid starting transaction on read-only fs in ext4_quota_off()

When the filesystem gets first remounted read-only and then unmounted,
ext4_quota_off() will try to start a transaction (and fail) on read-only
filesystem to cleanup inode flags for legacy quota files. Just bail
before trying to start a transaction instead since that is going to
issue a warning.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index f883f3fce066..7dc6750be978 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -7047,6 +7047,13 @@ static int ext4_quota_off(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 	err = dquot_quota_off(sb, type);
 	if (err || ext4_has_feature_quota(sb))
 		goto out_put;
+	/*
+	 * When the filesystem was remounted read-only first, we cannot cleanup
+ 	 * inode flags here. Bad luck but people should be using QUOTA feature
+	 * these days anyway.
+	 */
+	if (sb_rdonly(sb))
+		goto out_put;
 
 	inode_lock(inode);
 	/*
-- 
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