[PATCH 5.4 059/214] hugetlbfs: prevent filesystem stacking of hugetlbfs

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-01T16:24:49Z

From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 15568299b7d9988063afce60731df605ab236e2a ]

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>
---
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 40306c1eab07c..5fff7cb3582f0 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -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;
--
2.25.1