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 ext4_fill_super() when -o dax is specified. Reported-by: Micah Parrish <micah.parrish@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 304c712..90a8670 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3421,6 +3421,12 @@ static int ext4_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)) { + ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, + "error: unaligned partition for dax"); + goto failed_mount; + } if (!sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access) { ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "error: device does not support dax"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html