This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfs: validate bdev support for DAX inode flag
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xfs-validate-bdev-support-for-dax-inode-flag.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6851a3db7e224bbb85e23b3c64a506c9e0904382 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:46:03 -0700
Subject: xfs: validate bdev support for DAX inode flag
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6851a3db7e224bbb85e23b3c64a506c9e0904382 upstream.
Currently only the blocksize is checked, but we should really be calling
bdev_dax_supported() which also tests to make sure we can get a
struct dax_device and that the dax_direct_access() path is working.
This is the same check that we do for the "-o dax" mount option in
xfs_fs_fill_super().
This does not fix the race issues that caused the XFS DAX inode option to
be disabled, so that option will still be disabled. If/when we re-enable
it, though, I think we will want this issue to have been fixed. I also do
think that we want to fix this in stable kernels.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -1085,6 +1085,7 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr_dax_invalidate(
int *join_flags)
{
struct inode *inode = VFS_I(ip);
+ struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
int error;
*join_flags = 0;
@@ -1097,7 +1098,7 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr_dax_invalidate(
if (fa->fsx_xflags & FS_XFLAG_DAX) {
if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)))
return -EINVAL;
- if (ip->i_mount->m_sb.sb_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (bdev_dax_supported(sb, sb->s_blocksize) < 0)
return -EINVAL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/xfs-validate-bdev-support-for-dax-inode-flag.patch