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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst3
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/verity.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst
index 3e4c0ee0e068..e99ff3fd09f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/verity.rst
@@ -39,3 +39,6 @@ is encrypted as well as the data itself.
Verity files cannot have blocks allocated past the end of the verity
metadata.
+
+Verity and DAX are not compatible and attempts to set both of these flags
+on a file will fail.
diff --git a/fs/ext4/verity.c b/fs/ext4/verity.c
index dc5ec724d889..f05a09fb2ae4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/verity.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/verity.c
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ static int ext4_begin_enable_verity(struct file *filp)
handle_t *handle;
int err;
+ if (IS_DAX(inode))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (ext4_verity_in_progress(inode))
return -EBUSY;