Bug 669333

So, this is indeed just the kernel telling userspace that there is no group quota enabled, when userspace is asking for it.

Userspace is here, must be asking for group quota as you say:

report_mount():

        if (xfsquotactl(XFS_GETQUOTA, dev, type, id, (void *)&d) < 0) {
                if (errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOSYS)
                        perror("XFS_GETQUOTA");
                return 0;
        }

and it gets ESRCH From xfs_qm_dqget():

        if ((! XFS_IS_UQUOTA_ON(mp) && type == XFS_DQ_USER) ||
            (! XFS_IS_PQUOTA_ON(mp) && type == XFS_DQ_PROJ) ||
            (! XFS_IS_GQUOTA_ON(mp) && type == XFS_DQ_GROUP))
                return (ESRCH);

Upstream behaves the same way.

Hm userspace goes down this path, with

        if (!type)
                type = XFS_USER_QUOTA | XFS_GROUP_QUOTA | XFS_PROJ_QUOTA;

report_any_type():

        if (type & XFS_GROUP_QUOTA) {
                fs_cursor_initialise(dir, FS_MOUNT_POINT, &cursor);
                while ((mount = fs_cursor_next_entry(&cursor))) {
                        if (xfsquotactl(XFS_QSYNC, mount->fs_name,
                                                XFS_GROUP_QUOTA, 0, NULL) < 0
                                        && errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOSYS)
                                perror("XFS_QSYNC group quota");
                        report_group_mount(fp, form, mount,
                                                lower, upper, flags);
                }
        }

Seems a little odd that ENOENT wouldn't stop it in its tracks...

I'll send a patch upstream that should fix it.

Upstream patch:

commit e127d47bf2b816d1d9b8583d6f429b351e41176f
Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen>
Date:   Mon Feb 21 12:12:50 2011 -0600

    xfs_quota: don't try to report quotas which aren't there.
    
    Red Hat bug #669333 - xfs_quota generates "XFS_GETQUOTA: No such process" er
    shows that if you do this for a filesystem w/o group quota enabled:
    
    # xfs_quota -x -c ' report -h ' /xfsquota"
    
    You'll get this output:
    
    User quota on /xfsquota (/dev/vdb)
                            Blocks
    User ID      Used   Soft   Hard Warn/Grace

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Reproduced in xfsprogs-2.10.2-7.el5 and verified in xfsprogs-2.10.2-8.el5.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0205.html