Re: [PATCH] quota: be aware of error from dquot_initialize

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Tue 14-11-17 11:43:49, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2017/11/13 17:18, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Mon 13-11-17 11:31:48, Chao Yu wrote:
> >> Commit 6184fc0b8dd7 ("quota: Propagate error from ->acquire_dquot()")
> >> missed to handle error from dquot_initialize in dquot_file_open, fix it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
> > 
> > Good spotting. I've added the patch to my tree.
> 
> Thanks for queuing the patch. :)
> 
> BTW, I notice in add_dquot_ref we also didn't handle error of
> __dquot_initialize, should we handle it too?

It is questionable what we should do with an error in add_dquot_ref(). User
asked us to turn quotas on - that succeeded just fine but then we walked
over already active inodes in add_dquot_ref(), wanted to initialize
accounting information, and that failed for some inode. We can just leave
quota on, the accounting will work for other inodes - that's what we do
now. We could also propagate the failure up and refuse to turn quotas off.
I guess that's a somewhat better approach so if you want to implement that,
go ahead.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR