This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 279bf6d390933d5353ab298fcc306c391a961469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:12:15 -0400 Subject: ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit 279bf6d390933d5353ab298fcc306c391a961469 upstream. The check whether quota format is set even though there are no quota files with journalled quota is pointless and it actually makes it impossible to turn off journalled quotas (as there's no way to unset journalled quota format). Just remove the check. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -1712,13 +1712,6 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, "not specified"); return 0; } - } else { - if (sbi->s_jquota_fmt) { - ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "journaled quota format " - "specified with no journaling " - "enabled"); - return 0; - } } #endif if (test_opt(sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-3.17/evm-check-xattr-value-length-and-type-in-evm_inode_setxattr.patch queue-3.17/ext4-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.17/ext4-fix-oops-when-loading-block-bitmap-failed.patch queue-3.17/vfs-fix-data-corruption-when-blocksize-pagesize-for-mmaped-data.patch queue-3.17/ext4-fix-mmap-data-corruption-when-blocksize-pagesize.patch queue-3.17/ext4-don-t-orphan-or-truncate-the-boot-loader-inode.patch queue-3.17/ext4-fix-overflow-when-updating-superblock-backups-after-resize.patch queue-3.17/ext4-grab-missed-write_count-for-ext4_ioc_swap_boot.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html