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.k...@hpe.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
---
 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");

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