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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion
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"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> writes:

> Miklos Szeredi:
>> Here's a patch to limit stacking overlayfs instances on top of each
>> other and on ecryptfs to prevent kernel stack overflow.
>
> I don't think it a good idea to introduce such new member to generic
> struct super_block.
> - the new member is unrelated to most of other fs.
> - ecryptfs already rejects such nests by checking
> (sb->s_type == &ecryptfs_fs_type).
> Instead I'd suggest you to introduce a new small test function,
> something like
> int test_nested(sb)
> {
> return sb->s_magic == ECRYPTFS_SUPER_MAGIC
> || sb->s_type == &ovl_fs_type;
> }

I don't want to prevent stacking completely, only limit it. And the
only sane way to do that is with a counter in super_block.

Thanks,
Miklos


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