This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    blockdev: don't set S_DAX for misaligned partitions

to the 4.1-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:
     blockdev-don-t-set-s_dax-for-misaligned-partitions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From f0b2e563bc419df7c1b3d2f494574c25125f6aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:15:32 -0400
Subject: blockdev: don't set S_DAX for misaligned partitions

From: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>

commit f0b2e563bc419df7c1b3d2f494574c25125f6aed upstream.

The dax code doesn't currently support misaligned partitions,
so disable O_DIRECT via dax until such time as that support
materializes.

Suggested-by: Boaz Harrosh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/block_dev.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1234,6 +1234,13 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_dev
                                goto out_clear;
                        }
                        bd_set_size(bdev, (loff_t)bdev->bd_part->nr_sects << 9);
+                       /*
+                        * If the partition is not aligned on a page
+                        * boundary, we can't do dax I/O to it.
+                        */
+                       if ((bdev->bd_part->start_sect % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)) ||
+                           (bdev->bd_part->nr_sects % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)))
+                               bdev->bd_inode->i_flags &= ~S_DAX;
                }
        } else {
                if (bdev->bd_contains == bdev) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/blockdev-don-t-set-s_dax-for-misaligned-partitions.patch
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