[PATCH 2/3] ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount

From: Toshi Kani
Date: Fri Apr 29 2016 - 16:48:55 EST


When a partition is not aligned by 4KB, mount -o dax succeeds,
but any read/write access to the filesystem fails, except for
metadata update.

Add alignment check to ext2_fill_super() when -o dax is specified.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext2/super.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/super.c b/fs/ext2/super.c
index b78caf2..34e32d9 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
@@ -927,6 +927,12 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
"error: unsupported blocksize for dax");
goto failed_mount;
}
+ if (sb->s_bdev->bd_part->start_sect % (PAGE_SIZE / 512) ||
+ sb->s_bdev->bd_part->nr_sects % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)) {
+ ext2_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+ "error: unaligned partition for dax");
+ goto failed_mount;
+ }
if (!sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access) {
ext2_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
"error: device does not support dax");