On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 08:33:38PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This reverts commit 4b8628d57b725b32616965e66975fcdebe008fe7.
>
> XFS quota has had the concept of a "quota warning limit" since
> the earliest Irix implementation, but a mechanism for incrementing
> the warning counter was never implemented, as documented in the
> xfs_quota(8) man page. We do know from the historical archive that
> it was never incremented at runtime during quota reservation
> operations.
>
> With this commit, the warning counter quickly increments for every
> allocation attempt after the user has crossed a quote soft
> limit threshold, and this in turn transitions the user to hard
> quota failures, rendering soft quota thresholds and timers useless.
> This was reported as a regression by users.
>
> Because the intended behavior of this warning counter has never been
> understood or documented, and the result of this change is a regression
> in soft quota functionality, revert this commit to make soft quota
> limits and timers operable again.
>
> Fixes: 4b8628d57b72 ("xfs: actually bump warning counts when we send warnings)
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assuming you're also going to send a patch to nuke xfs/144 is on its
way...
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
--D
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c
> index 9ba7e6b..ebe2c22 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c
> @@ -603,7 +603,6 @@
> return QUOTA_NL_ISOFTLONGWARN;
> }
>
> - res->warnings++;
> return QUOTA_NL_ISOFTWARN;
> }
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
