On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:05:23PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> The current code has the potential for data corruption when changing an
> inode's journaling mode, as that can result in a subsequent unsafe change
> in S_DAX.
> 
> I've captured an instance of this data corruption in the following fstest:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9948377/
> 
> Prevent this data corruption from happening by disallowing changes to the
> journaling mode if the '-o dax' mount option was used.  This means that for
> a given filesystem we could have a mix of inodes using either DAX or
> data journaling, but whatever state the inodes are in will be held for the
> duration of the mount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>

Thanks, applied.

                                                - Ted
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