When the memory is insufficient, the allocation of fh fails, which causes
the failure to obtain the dentry fid, and finally causes the dentry encoding
to fail.
Retry is used to avoid the failure of fh allocation caused by temporary
insufficient memory.
#syz test
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index 2ed6ad641a20..1e027a3cf084 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -423,15 +423,22 @@ struct ovl_fh *ovl_encode_real_fh(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *real,
int fh_type, dwords;
int buflen = MAX_HANDLE_SZ;
uuid_t *uuid = &real->d_sb->s_uuid;
- int err;
+ int err, rtt = 0;
/* Make sure the real fid stays 32bit aligned */
BUILD_BUG_ON(OVL_FH_FID_OFFSET % 4);
BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_HANDLE_SZ + OVL_FH_FID_OFFSET > 255);
+retry:
fh = kzalloc(buflen + OVL_FH_FID_OFFSET, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!fh)
+ if (!fh) {
+ if (!rtt) {
+ cond_resched();
+ rtt++;
+ goto retry;
+ }
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ }
/*
* We encode a non-connectable file handle for non-dir, because we
