diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index fd2ca0794..4bb4b4b79 100755
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -2398,6 +2398,20 @@ static int vfs_setup_quota_inode(struct inode *inode, int type)
 	if (sb_has_quota_loaded(sb, type))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
+	/*
+	 * Quota files should never be encrypted.  They should be thought of as
+	 * filesystem metadata, not user data.  New-style internal quota files
+	 * cannot be encrypted by users anyway, but old-style external quota
+	 * files could potentially be incorrectly created in an encrypted
+	 * directory, hence this explicit check.  Some reasons why encrypted
+	 * quota files don't work include: (1) some filesystems that support
+	 * encryption don't handle it in their quota_read and quota_write, and
+	 * (2) cleaning up encrypted quota files at unmount would need special
+	 * consideration, as quota files are cleaned up later than user files.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENCRYPTED(inode))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	dqopt->files[type] = igrab(inode);
 	if (!dqopt->files[type])
 		return -EIO;