Mounting a filesystem that requires quota state changing will generate a transaction. We already check for a read-only device; we should do that for norecovery too. A quotacheck on a norecovery mount, and with the right log size, will cause the mount process to hang on: [<0>] xlog_grant_head_wait+0x5d/0x2a0 [xfs] [<0>] xlog_grant_head_check+0x112/0x180 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_log_reserve+0xe3/0x260 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_trans_reserve+0x179/0x250 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_trans_alloc+0x101/0x260 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_sync_sb+0x3f/0x80 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_qm_mount_quotas+0xe3/0x2f0 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_mountfs+0x7ad/0xc20 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_fs_fill_super+0x762/0xa50 [xfs] [<0>] get_tree_bdev_flags+0x131/0x1d0 [<0>] vfs_get_tree+0x26/0xd0 [<0>] vfs_cmd_create+0x59/0xe0 [<0>] __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4e3/0x6b0 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e This is caused by a transaction running with bogus initialized head/tail I initially hit this while running generic/050, with random log sizes, but I managed to reproduce it reliably here with the steps below: mkfs.xfs -f -lsize=1025M -f -b size=4096 -m crc=1,reflink=1,rmapbt=1, -i sparse=1 /dev/vdb2 > /dev/null mount -o usrquota,grpquota,prjquota /dev/vdb2 /mnt xfs_io -x -c 'shutdown -f' /mnt umount /mnt mount -o ro,norecovery,usrquota,grpquota,prjquota /dev/vdb2 /mnt Last mount hangs up As we add yet another validation if quota state is changing, this also add a new helper named xfs_qm_validate(), factoring the quota state changes out of xfs_qm_newmount() to reduce cluttering within it. As per Darrick suggestion, add a new, different warning message if metadir is enabled. Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>