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Since overlayfs implements stacked file operations, the underlying filesystems are not supposed to be exposed to the overlayfs file, whose f_inode is an overlayfs inode. Assigning an overlayfs file to swap_file results in an attempt of xfs code to dereference an xfs_inode struct from an ovl_inode pointer: CPU: 0 PID: 2462 Comm: swapon Not tainted 4.18.0-xfstests-12721-g33e17876ea4e #3402 RIP: 0010:xfs_find_bdev_for_inode+0x23/0x2f Call Trace: xfs_iomap_swapfile_activate+0x1f/0x43 __se_sys_swapon+0xb1a/0xee9 Fix this by not assigning the real inode mapping to f_mapping, which will cause swapon() to return an error (-EINVAL). Although it makes sense not to allow setting swpafile on an overlayfs file, some users may depend on it, so we may need to fix this up in the future. Keeping f_mapping pointing to overlay inode mapping will cause O_DIRECT open to fail. Fix this by installing ovl_aops with noop_direct_IO in overlay inode mapping. Keeping f_mapping pointing to overlay inode mapping will cause other a_ops related operations to fail (e.g. readahead()). Those will be fixed by follow up patches. Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Fixes: f7c72396d0de ("ovl: add O_DIRECT support") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.