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hugetlbfs: prevent filesystem stacking of hugetlbfs
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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 <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80f869aa-810d-ef6c-8888-b46cee135907@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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mjkravetz authored and gregkh committed Sep 3, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -1284,6 +1284,12 @@ 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;
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