When expanding inode space in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea() we may need to allocate external xattr block. If quota is not initialized for the inode, the block allocation will not be accounted into quota usage. Make sure the quota is initialized before we try to expand inode space. Reported-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y5BT+k6xWqthZc1P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 2b5ef1b64249..62c81af57bb0 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -5853,6 +5853,14 @@ static int __ext4_expand_extra_isize(struct inode *inode, return 0; } + /* + * We may need to allocate external xattr block so we need quotas + * initialized. Here we can be called with various locks held so we + * cannot affort to initialize quotas ourselves. So just bail. + */ + if (dquot_initialize_needed(inode)) + return -EAGAIN; + /* try to expand with EAs present */ error = ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea(inode, new_extra_isize, raw_inode, handle); -- 2.35.3