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erofs: limit the level of fs stacking for file-backed mounts
authorGao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:23:32 +0000 (14:23 +0800)
committerGao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:17:29 +0000 (14:17 +0800)
Otherwise, it could cause potential kernel stack overflow (e.g., EROFS
mounting itself).

Reviewed-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@xiaomi.com>
Fixes: fb176750266a ("erofs: add file-backed mount support")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
fs/erofs/super.c

index cd8ff98c29384f0e0495499a89516a4f689d00c7..937a215f626c1ccaa5071f13ba70809b1e2ab0ee 100644 (file)
@@ -639,6 +639,22 @@ static int erofs_fc_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 
        sbi->blkszbits = PAGE_SHIFT;
        if (!sb->s_bdev) {
+               /*
+                * (File-backed mounts) EROFS claims it's safe to nest other
+                * fs contexts (including its own) due to self-controlled RO
+                * accesses/contexts and no side-effect changes that need to
+                * context save & restore so it can reuse the current thread
+                * context.  However, it still needs to bump `s_stack_depth` to
+                * avoid kernel stack overflow from nested filesystems.
+                */
+               if (erofs_is_fileio_mode(sbi)) {
+                       sb->s_stack_depth =
+                               file_inode(sbi->dif0.file)->i_sb->s_stack_depth + 1;
+                       if (sb->s_stack_depth > FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) {
+                               erofs_err(sb, "maximum fs stacking depth exceeded");
+                               return -ENOTBLK;
+                       }
+               }
                sb->s_blocksize = PAGE_SIZE;
                sb->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_SHIFT;