diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index c3e21ccfc358..a7f77e1fa18c 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ static int dax_insert_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh,
  * @vma: The virtual memory area where the fault occurred
  * @vmf: The description of the fault
  * @get_block: The filesystem method used to translate file offsets to blocks
+ * @complete_unwritten: The filesystem method used to convert unwritten blocks
+ *	to written so the data written to them is exposed. This is required for
+ *	required by write faults for filesystems that will return unwritten
+ *	extent mappings from @get_block, but it is optional for reads as
+ *	dax_insert_mapping() will always zero unwritten blocks. If the fs does
+ *	not support unwritten extents, the it should pass NULL.
  *
  * When a page fault occurs, filesystems may call this helper in their
  * fault handler for DAX files. __dax_fault() assumes the caller has done all
@@ -437,8 +443,12 @@ int __dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	 * as for normal BH based IO completions.
 	 */
 	error = dax_insert_mapping(inode, &bh, vma, vmf);
-	if (buffer_unwritten(&bh))
-		complete_unwritten(&bh, !error);
+	if (buffer_unwritten(&bh)) {
+		if (complete_unwritten)
+			complete_unwritten(&bh, !error);
+		else
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE));
+	}
 
  out:
 	if (error == -ENOMEM)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
index 20de88d1bf86..dd714037c322 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
@@ -159,11 +159,10 @@ xfs_attr3_rmt_write_verify(
 	struct xfs_buf	*bp)
 {
 	struct xfs_mount *mp = bp->b_target->bt_mount;
-	struct xfs_buf_log_item	*bip = bp->b_fspriv;
+	int		blksize = mp->m_attr_geo->blksize;
 	char		*ptr;
 	int		len;
 	xfs_daddr_t	bno;
-	int		blksize = mp->m_attr_geo->blksize;
 
 	/* no verification of non-crc buffers */
 	if (!xfs_sb_version_hascrc(&mp->m_sb))
@@ -175,16 +174,22 @@ xfs_attr3_rmt_write_verify(
 	ASSERT(len >= blksize);
 
 	while (len > 0) {
+		struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr *rmt = (struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr *)ptr;
+
 		if (!xfs_attr3_rmt_verify(mp, ptr, blksize, bno)) {
 			xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, -EFSCORRUPTED);
 			xfs_verifier_error(bp);
 			return;
 		}
-		if (bip) {
-			struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr *rmt;
 
-			rmt = (struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr *)ptr;
-			rmt->rm_lsn = cpu_to_be64(bip->bli_item.li_lsn);
+		/*
+		 * Ensure we aren't writing bogus LSNs to disk. See
+		 * xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr_set() for the explanation.
+		 */
+		if (rmt->rm_lsn != cpu_to_be64(NULLCOMMITLSN)) {
+			xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, -EFSCORRUPTED);
+			xfs_verifier_error(bp);
+			return;
 		}
 		xfs_update_cksum(ptr, blksize, XFS_ATTR3_RMT_CRC_OFF);
 
@@ -221,6 +226,18 @@ xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr_set(
 	rmt->rm_owner = cpu_to_be64(ino);
 	rmt->rm_blkno = cpu_to_be64(bno);
 
+	/*
+	 * Remote attribute blocks are written synchronously, so we don't
+	 * have an LSN that we can stamp in them that makes any sense to log
+	 * recovery. To ensure that log recovery handles overwrites of these
+	 * blocks sanely (i.e. once they've been freed and reallocated as some
+	 * other type of metadata) we need to ensure that the LSN has a value
+	 * that tells log recovery to ignore the LSN and overwrite the buffer
+	 * with whatever is in it's log. To do this, we use the magic
+	 * NULLCOMMITLSN to indicate that the LSN is invalid.
+	 */
+	rmt->rm_lsn = cpu_to_be64(NULLCOMMITLSN);
+
 	return sizeof(struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr);
 }
 
@@ -434,14 +451,21 @@ xfs_attr_rmtval_set(
 
 		/*
 		 * Allocate a single extent, up to the size of the value.
+		 *
+		 * Note that we have to consider this a data allocation as we
+		 * write the remote attribute without logging the contents.
+		 * Hence we must ensure that we aren't using blocks that are on
+		 * the busy list so that we don't overwrite blocks which have
+		 * recently been freed but their transactions are not yet
+		 * committed to disk. If we overwrite the contents of a busy
+		 * extent and then crash then the block may not contain the
+		 * correct metadata after log recovery occurs.
 		 */
 		xfs_bmap_init(args->flist, args->firstblock);
 		nmap = 1;
 		error = xfs_bmapi_write(args->trans, dp, (xfs_fileoff_t)lblkno,
-				  blkcnt,
-				  XFS_BMAPI_ATTRFORK | XFS_BMAPI_METADATA,
-				  args->firstblock, args->total, &map, &nmap,
-				  args->flist);
+				  blkcnt, XFS_BMAPI_ATTRFORK, args->firstblock,
+				  args->total, &map, &nmap, args->flist);
 		if (!error) {
 			error = xfs_bmap_finish(&args->trans, args->flist,
 						&committed);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index f0e8249722d4..db4acc1c3e73 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -1514,18 +1514,27 @@ xfs_filemap_fault(
 	struct vm_area_struct	*vma,
 	struct vm_fault		*vmf)
 {
-	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(file_inode(vma->vm_file));
+	struct inode		*inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
 	int			ret;
 
-	trace_xfs_filemap_fault(ip);
+	trace_xfs_filemap_fault(XFS_I(inode));
 
 	/* DAX can shortcut the normal fault path on write faults! */
-	if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && IS_DAX(VFS_I(ip)))
+	if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && IS_DAX(inode))
 		return xfs_filemap_page_mkwrite(vma, vmf);
 
-	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED);
-	ret = filemap_fault(vma, vmf);
-	xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED);
+	xfs_ilock(XFS_I(inode), XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED);
+	if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
+		/*
+		 * we do not want to trigger unwritten extent conversion on read
+		 * faults - that is unnecessary overhead and would also require
+		 * changes to xfs_get_blocks_direct() to map unwritten extent
+		 * ioend for conversion on read-only mappings.
+		 */
+		ret = __dax_fault(vma, vmf, xfs_get_blocks_direct, NULL);
+	} else
+		ret = filemap_fault(vma, vmf);
+	xfs_iunlock(XFS_I(inode), XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
index 01dd228ca05e..480ebba8464f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
@@ -1886,9 +1886,14 @@ xlog_recover_get_buf_lsn(
 		uuid = &((struct xfs_dir3_blk_hdr *)blk)->uuid;
 		break;
 	case XFS_ATTR3_RMT_MAGIC:
-		lsn = be64_to_cpu(((struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr *)blk)->rm_lsn);
-		uuid = &((struct xfs_attr3_rmt_hdr *)blk)->rm_uuid;
-		break;
+		/*
+		 * Remote attr blocks are written synchronously, rather than
+		 * being logged. That means they do not contain a valid LSN
+		 * (i.e. transactionally ordered) in them, and hence any time we
+		 * see a buffer to replay over the top of a remote attribute
+		 * block we should simply do so.
+		 */
+		goto recover_immediately;
 	case XFS_SB_MAGIC:
 		lsn = be64_to_cpu(((struct xfs_dsb *)blk)->sb_lsn);
 		uuid = &((struct xfs_dsb *)blk)->sb_uuid;