On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:27:15AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote: > I am fairly confident it is all about checking limits and alignment. The > filesystem knows if it can/should align to base or huge page size. DAX has > some interesting additional restrictions, and several 'traditional' filesystems > check if they are 'on DAX'. Okay, I haven't looked at DAX vs. overlay. I'm sure it's going to come up at some point, if it hasn't already. > > In a previous e-mail, you suggested hugetlb_get_unmapped_area could do the > length adjustment in hugetlb_get_unmapped_area (generic and arch specific). > I agree, although there may be the need to add length overflow checks in > these routines (after round up) as this is done in core code now. However, > this can be done as a separate cleanup patch. > > In any case, we need to get the core mmap code to call filesystem specific > get_unmapped_area if on a union/overlay. The patch I suggested does this > by simply calling real_file to determine if there is a filesystem specific > get_unmapped_area. The other approach would be to provide an overlayfs > get_unmapped_area that calls the underlying filesystem get_unmapped_area. That latter is what's done for all other stacked operations in overlayfs. Untested patch below. Thanks, Miklos --- fs/overlayfs/file.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c @@ -757,6 +757,17 @@ static loff_t ovl_remap_file_range(struc remap_flags, op); } +static unsigned long ovl_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, + unsigned long uaddr, unsigned long len, + unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags) +{ + struct file *realfile = file->private_data; + + return (realfile->f_op->get_unmapped_area ?: + current->mm->get_unmapped_area)(realfile, + uaddr, len, pgoff, flags); +} + const struct file_operations ovl_file_operations = { .open = ovl_open, .release = ovl_release, @@ -774,6 +785,7 @@ const struct file_operations ovl_file_op .copy_file_range = ovl_copy_file_range, .remap_file_range = ovl_remap_file_range, + .get_unmapped_area = ovl_get_unmapped_area, }; int __init ovl_aio_request_cache_init(void)