From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> [ 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@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: syzbot+d6ec23007e951dadf3de@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80f869aa-810d-ef6c-8888-b46cee135907@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c index ef5313f9c78fe..f936bcf02cce7 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; -- 2.25.1