[PATCH] hugetlbfs: prevent filesystem stacking of hugetlbfs

[Mike Kravetz]

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

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 991c60c7ffe0..f32759c8e84d 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -1313,6 +1313,12 @@ 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;
-- 
2.25.4