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 xfs_fs_fill_super() when -o dax is
specified.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hpe.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> (supporter:XFS FILESYSTEM)
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index 187e14b..a17aebc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1563,6 +1563,11 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
                        xfs_alert(mp,
                "Filesystem block size invalid for DAX Turning DAX off.");
                        mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_DAX;
+               } else if (sb->s_bdev->bd_part->start_sect % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)
+                  || sb->s_bdev->bd_part->nr_sects % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)) {
+                       xfs_alert(mp,
+               "Partition alignment invalid for DAX Turning DAX off.");
+                       mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_DAX;
                } else if (!sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access) {
                        xfs_alert(mp,
                "Block device does not support DAX Turning DAX off.");

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