This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext3: 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: ext3-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 7938db449bbc55bbeb164bec7af406212e7e98f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:23:10 +0200 Subject: ext3: Don't check quota format when there are no quota files From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit 7938db449bbc55bbeb164bec7af406212e7e98f1 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -1354,13 +1354,6 @@ set_qf_format: "not specified."); return 0; } - } else { - if (sbi->s_jquota_fmt) { - ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "error: journaled quota format " - "specified with no journaling " - "enabled."); - return 0; - } } #endif return 1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-3.17/ext3-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.17/evm-check-xattr-value-length-and-type-in-evm_inode_setxattr.patch queue-3.17/scsi-fix-error-handling-in-scsi_ioctl_send_command.patch queue-3.17/ext4-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.17/lib-bitmap.c-fix-undefined-shift-in-__bitmap_shift_-left-right.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 queue-3.17/ima-check-xattr-value-length-and-type-in-the-ima_inode_setxattr.patch queue-3.17/quota-properly-return-errors-from-dquot_writeback_dquots.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