Patch "dax: fix O_DIRECT I/O to the last block of a blockdev" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

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

dax: fix O_DIRECT I/O to the last block of a blockdev

to the 4.2-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:
dax-fix-o_direct-i-o-to-the-last-block-of-a-blockdev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

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

From: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:15:31 -0400
Subject: dax: fix O_DIRECT I/O to the last block of a blockdev

From: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>

commit e94f5a2285fc94202a9efb2c687481f29b64132c upstream.

commit bbab37ddc20b (block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices) caused a regression in mkfs.xfs. That utility sets the block size of the device to the logical block size using the BLKBSZSET ioctl, and then issues a single sector read from the last sector of the device. This results in the dax_io code trying to do a page-sized read from 512 bytes from the end of the device. The result is -ERANGE being returned to userspace.

The fix is to align the block to the page size before calling get_block.

Thanks to willy for simplifying my original patch.

---
 fs/dax.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inod
 		unsigned len;
 		if (pos == max) {
 			unsigned blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
-			sector_t block = pos >> blkbits;
+			long page = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+			sector_t block = page << (PAGE_SHIFT - blkbits);
 			unsigned first = pos - (block << blkbits);
 			long size;
 

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

queue-4.2/blockdev-don-t-set-s_dax-for-misaligned-partitions.patch queue-4.2/dax-fix-o_direct-i-o-to-the-last-block-of-a-blockdev.patch