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.
Call bdev_supports_dax() to perform proper precondition checks
which includes this partition alignment check.
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>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext2/super.c | 11 ++---------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext2/super.c b/fs/ext2/super.c
index b78caf2..7d63de4 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
@@ -922,16 +922,9 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
blocksize = BLOCK_SIZE << le32_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_log_block_size);
if (sbi->s_mount_opt & EXT2_MOUNT_DAX) {
- if (blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) {
- ext2_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
- "error: unsupported blocksize for dax");
+ err = bdev_supports_dax(sb, blocksize);
+ if (err)
goto failed_mount;
- }
- if (!sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access) {
- ext2_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
- "error: device does not support dax");
- goto failed_mount;
- }
}
/* If the blocksize doesn't match, re-read the thing.. */
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