Patch "ext2, ext4: warn when mounting with dax enabled" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ext2, ext4: warn when mounting with dax enabled

to the 4.3-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:
     ext2-ext4-warn-when-mounting-with-dax-enabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ef83b6e8f40bb24b92ad73b5889732346e54a793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:48:11 -0400
Subject: ext2, ext4: warn when mounting with dax enabled

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

commit ef83b6e8f40bb24b92ad73b5889732346e54a793 upstream.

Similar to XFS warn when mounting DAX while it is still considered under
development.  Also, aspects of the DAX implementation, for example
synchronization against multiple faults and faults causing block
allocation, depend on the correct implementation in the filesystem.  The
maturity of a given DAX implementation is filesystem specific.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext2/super.c |    2 ++
 fs/ext4/super.c |    6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
@@ -566,6 +566,8 @@ static int parse_options(char *options,
 			/* Fall through */
 		case Opt_dax:
 #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+			ext2_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
+		"DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk");
 			set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, DAX);
 #else
 			ext2_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "dax option not supported");
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1664,8 +1664,12 @@ static int handle_mount_opt(struct super
 		}
 		sbi->s_jquota_fmt = m->mount_opt;
 #endif
-#ifndef CONFIG_FS_DAX
 	} else if (token == Opt_dax) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
+		"DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk");
+			sbi->s_mount_opt |= m->mount_opt;
+#else
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "dax option not supported");
 		return -1;
 #endif


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.3/ext2-ext4-warn-when-mounting-with-dax-enabled.patch