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authorGao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>2026-01-08 10:38:31 +0800
committerGao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>2026-01-10 13:01:15 +0800
commit072a7c7cdbea4f91df854ee2bb216256cd619f2a (patch)
treeaab8613a5bbfd7a1c0fe8e8273a81599000fb2b5 /kernel/locking
parentf8f9c1f4d0c7a64600e2ca312dec824a0bc2f1da (diff)
erofs: don't bother with s_stack_depth increasing for now
Previously, commit d53cd891f0e4 ("erofs: limit the level of fs stacking for file-backed mounts") bumped `s_stack_depth` by one to avoid kernel stack overflow when stacking an unlimited number of EROFS on top of each other. This fix breaks composefs mounts, which need EROFS+ovl^2 sometimes (and such setups are already used in production for quite a long time). One way to fix this regression is to bump FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH from 2 to 3, but proving that this is safe in general is a high bar. After a long discussion on GitHub issues [1] about possible solutions, one conclusion is that there is no need to support nesting file-backed EROFS mounts on stacked filesystems, because there is always the option to use loopback devices as a fallback. As a quick fix for the composefs regression for this cycle, instead of bumping `s_stack_depth` for file backed EROFS mounts, we disallow nesting file-backed EROFS over EROFS and over filesystems with `s_stack_depth` > 0. This works for all known file-backed mount use cases (composefs, containerd, and Android APEX for some Android vendors), and the fix is self-contained. Essentially, we are allowing one extra unaccounted fs stacking level of EROFS below stacking filesystems, but EROFS can only be used in the read path (i.e. overlayfs lower layers), which typically has much lower stack usage than the write path. We can consider increasing FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH later, after more stack usage analysis or using alternative approaches, such as splitting the `s_stack_depth` limitation according to different combinations of stacking. Fixes: d53cd891f0e4 ("erofs: limit the level of fs stacking for file-backed mounts") Reported-and-tested-by: Dusty Mabe <dusty@dustymabe.com> Reported-by: Timothée Ravier <tim@siosm.fr> Closes: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/2087 [1] Reported-by: "Alekséi Naidénov" <an@digitaltide.io> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAFHtUiYv4+=+JP_-JjARWjo6OwcvBj1wtYN=z0QXwCpec9sXtg@mail.gmail.com Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@xiaomi.com> Reviewed-by: Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@unisoc.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
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