From: Mike Kravetz Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 01:31:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: hugetlbfs: prevent filesystem stacking of hugetlbfs X-Git-Tag: v5.9-rc1~52^2~139 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=15568299b7d9988063afce60731df605ab236e2a;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git hugetlbfs: prevent filesystem stacking of hugetlbfs syzbot found issues with having hugetlbfs on a union/overlay as reported in [1]. Due to the limitations (no write) and special functionality of hugetlbfs, it does not work well in filesystem stacking. There are no know use cases for hugetlbfs stacking. Rather than making modifications to get hugetlbfs working in such environments, simply prevent stacking. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000b4684e05a2968ca6@google.com/ Reported-by: syzbot+d6ec23007e951dadf3de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Al Viro Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Colin Walters Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80f869aa-810d-ef6c-8888-b46cee135907@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c index 523954d00dff6..b5c109703daaf 100644 --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -1364,6 +1364,12 @@ hugetlbfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc) sb->s_magic = HUGETLBFS_MAGIC; sb->s_op = &hugetlbfs_ops; sb->s_time_gran = 1; + + /* + * Due to the special and limited functionality of hugetlbfs, it does + * not work well as a stacking filesystem. + */ + sb->s_stack_depth = FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH; sb->s_root = d_make_root(hugetlbfs_get_root(sb, ctx)); if (!sb->s_root) goto out_free;