On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 03:53:55PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2021, at 12:34 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:05:19PM +0300, Roman Anufriev wrote:
> >>> Commit 7ddf79a10395 ("ext4: only set project inherit bit for directory")
> >>> removes EXT4_INODE_PROJINHERIT flag from regular files. This makes
> >>> ext4_statfs() output incorrect (function does not apply quota limits
> >>> on used/available space, etc) when called on dentry of regular file
> >>> with project quota enabled.
> >
> > Under what circumstance is userspace trying to call statfs on a file
> > descriptor?
>
> Who knows what users do? Calling statfs() on a regular file works fine
> (returns stats for the filesystem), so I don't see why it wouldn't be
> consistent when calling statfs() on a file with projid set?
>
> Darrick, how does XFS handle this case? I think it makes sense to be
> consistent with that implementation, since that was the main reason to
> remove PROJINHERIT from regular files in the first place.
As far as I can tell, the existing ext4 implementation handles this
exactly the same that XFS does. I would leave this alone on the grounds
that we don't really want inconsistent behavior.
--D
>
> > Removing the test for EXT4_INODE_PROJINHERIT will cause
> > incorrect/misleading results being returned in the case where we have
> > a directory where a directory hierarchy is using project id's, but
> > which is *not* using PROJINHERIT.
>
> One alternative would be to check the PROJINHERIT status of the parent
> directory after calling statfs() on the regular file? That should
> keep the semantics for PROJINHERIT the same, but avoid inconsistent
> results if called on a regular file:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
> - if (ext4_test_inode_flag(dentry->d_inode, EXT4_INODE_PROJINHERIT) &&
> + if (ext4_test_inode_flag(S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) ? dentry->d_inode :
> + dentry->d_parent->d_inode, EXT4_INODE_PROJINHERIT) &&
> sb_has_quota_limits_enabled(sb, PRJQUOTA))
> ext4_statfs_project(sb, EXT4_I(dentry->d_inode)->i_projid, buf);
> #endif
>
> Roman, does that work for you?
>
> Cheers, Andreas
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