On the latest kernel 6.0.0-0.rc2, I find the user quota limit in an
ext4 mount is unstable, that after several successful "write file then
delete" loops, it will finally fail with "Disk quota exceeded". This
bug can be reproduced on at least kernel-6.0.0-0.rc2 and
kernel-5.14.0-*, but can't be reproduced on kernel-4.18.0 based RHEL8
kernel.
Reproducer (can also be found as the attachment):
```
#!/bin/bash
# setup
groupadd -f quota_test
useradd -g quota_test quota_test_user1
dd if=/dev/null of=ext4_5G.img bs=1G seek=5
lo_dev=$(losetup -f --show ext4_5G.img)
mkdir /mntpt
mkfs.ext4 -F ext4_5G.img
mount -o usrquota ext4_5G.img /mntpt
chmod 777 /mntpt
quotacheck -u /mntpt
setquota -u quota_test_user1 200000 300000 2000 3000 /mntpt
quotaon -u /mntpt
# test
for i in $(seq 1 100); do
echo "*** Run#$((i++)) ***"
echo "--- Quota before writing file ---"; quota -uv
quota_test_user1; echo "--- ---"
su - quota_test_user1 -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mntpt/test_300m
bs=1024 count=300000" || break_flag=1
echo "--- Quota after writing file ---"; quota -uv
quota_test_user1; echo "--- ---"
rm -f /mntpt/test_300m
sleep 10s # in case slow deletion
echo "--- Quota after deleting file ---"; quota -uv
quota_test_user1; echo "--- ---"
[[ $break_flag -eq 1 ]] && break
done
# cleanup
umount /mntpt
losetup -D
rm -rf ext4_5G.img /mntpt
userdel -r quota_test_user1
groupdel quota_test
```
Run log on kernel-6.0.0-0.rc2
```
(...skip successful Run#[1-2]...)
*** Run#3 ***
--- Quota before writing file ---
Disk quotas for user quota_test_user1 (uid 1003):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/loop0 0 200000 300000 0 2000 3000
--- ---
dd: error writing '/mntpt/test_300m': Disk quota exceeded
299997+0 records in
299996+0 records out
307195904 bytes (307 MB, 293 MiB) copied, 1.44836 s, 212 MB/s
--- Quota after writing file ---
Disk quotas for user quota_test_user1 (uid 1003):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/loop0 300000* 200000 300000 7days 1 2000 3000
--- ---
--- Quota after deleting file ---
Disk quotas for user quota_test_user1 (uid 1003):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/loop0 0 200000 300000 0 2000 3000
--- ---
```
The kernel in test can be found at
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2050107
Attachment:
test_quota_v01.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
