The patch titled quota: turn quotas off when remounting read-only has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is quota-turn-quotas-off-when-remounting-read-only.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: quota: turn quotas off when remounting read-only From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Turn off quotas before filesystem is remounted read only. Otherwise quota will try to write to read-only filesystem which does no good... We could also just refuse to remount ro when quota is enabled but turning quota off is consistent with what we do on umount. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/super.c~quota-turn-quotas-off-when-remounting-read-only fs/super.c --- a/fs/super.c~quota-turn-quotas-off-when-remounting-read-only +++ a/fs/super.c @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb mark_files_ro(sb); else if (!fs_may_remount_ro(sb)) return -EBUSY; + DQUOT_OFF(sb); } if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are origin.patch iget-stop-ext3-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch iget-stop-ext4-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch use-pgoff_t-instead-of-unsigned-long.patch write_inode_now-avoid-unnecessary-synchronous-write.patch udf-fix-coding-style-of-superc.patch udf-remove-some-ugly-macros.patch udf-convert-udf_sb_alloc_partmaps-macro-to-udf_sb_alloc_partition_maps-function.patch udf-check-if-udf_load_logicalvol-failed.patch udf-convert-macros-related-to-bitmaps-to-functions.patch udf-move-calculating-of-nr_groups-into-helper-function.patch udf-fix-sparse-warnings-shadowing-mismatch-between-declaration-and-definition.patch udf-fix-coding-style.patch udf-create-common-function-for-tag-checksumming.patch udf-create-common-function-for-changing-free-space-counter.patch udf-replace-loops-coded-with-goto-to-real-loops.patch udf-convert-byte-order-of-constant-instead-of-variable.patch udf-remove-udf_i_-macros-and-open-code-them.patch udf-cache-struct-udf_inode_info.patch udf-fix-udf_debug-macro.patch udf-improve-readability-of-udf_load_partition.patch udf-remove-wrong-prototype-of-udf_readdir.patch udf-fix-3-signedness-1-unitialized-variable-warnings.patch udf-fix-signedness-issue.patch udf-avoid-unnecessary-synchronous-writes.patch udf-cleanup-directory-offset-handling.patch udf-fix-adding-entry-to-a-directory.patch change-udf-maintainer.patch isofs-implement-dmode-option.patch isofs-implement-dmode-option-fix.patch mount-options-fix-ext2.patch mount-options-fix-isofs.patch mount-options-fix-udf.patch buffer_head-fix-private_list-handling.patch quota-turn-quotas-off-when-remounting-read-only.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html