Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ceph: quota: fix quota subdir mounts

[Yan, Zheng]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:55 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:06 PM Gregory Farnum <gfarnum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:32 PM Yan, Zheng <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > After reading the code carefully. I feel a little uncomfortable with
> >> > the "lookup_ino" in get_quota_realm.  how about populating directories
> >> > above the 'mount subdir' during mounting (similar to cifs_get_root ).
>
> Wouldn't it be a problem if the directory layout (or, in this case, the
> snaprealm layout) change during the mount lifetime?  In that case we
> would need to do this lookup anyway.
>

right

> >>
> >> Isn't that going to be a problem for any clients which have
> >>restricted filesystem access permissions? They may not be able to see
> >>all the directories above their mount point.  -Greg
> >
> > using lookup_ino to get inode above the "mount subdir" has the same problem
> >
>
> In this case I believe we get an -EPERM from the MDS.  And then the
> client simply falls back to the 'default' behaviour, which is to allow
> the user to create/write to files as if there were no quotas set.
>

fair enough

> Cheers,
> --
> Luis