Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] quota: Don't issue audit messages on quota enforcing

From: Jan Kara

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 07:23:40 EST


On Thu 02-07-26 11:33:21, cem@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Carlos Maiolino <cem@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Calling capable() to determine if we can bypass quota enforcement or not
> can trigger spurious audit messages. We don't really require it here so
> just use the capable_noaudit() version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dr. Thomas Orgis" <thomas.orgis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Makes sense. Feel free to add:

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza
> ---
> fs/quota/dquot.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
> index 9850de3955d3..dab93422a57b 100644
> --- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
> +++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
> @@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ static int ignore_hardlimit(struct dquot *dquot)
> {
> struct mem_dqinfo *info = &sb_dqopt(dquot->dq_sb)->info[dquot->dq_id.type];
>
> - return capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) &&
> + return capable_noaudit(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) &&
> (info->dqi_format->qf_fmt_id != QFMT_VFS_OLD ||
> !(info->dqi_flags & DQF_ROOT_SQUASH));
> }
> --
> 2.54.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR