If a dax buffer from a device that does not map pages is passed to
read(2) or write(2) as a target for direct-I/O it triggers SIGBUS. If
gdb attempts to examine the contents of a dax buffer from a device that
does not map pages it triggers SIGBUS. If fork(2) is called on a process
with a dax mapping from a device that does not map pages it triggers
SIGBUS. 'struct page' is required otherwise several kernel code paths
break in surprising ways. Disable filesystem-dax on devices that do not
map pages.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dax/super.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
index 30d8a5aedd23..d9ac57b3e49a 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/super.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/genhd.h>
+#include <linux/pfn_t.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <linux/hash.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -123,6 +124,12 @@ int __bdev_dax_supported(struct super_block *sb, int blocksize)
return len < 0 ? len : -EIO;
}
+ if (!pfn_t_has_page(pfn)) {
+ pr_err("VFS (%s): error: dax support not enabled\n",
+ sb->s_id);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__bdev_dax_supported);
