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[ Upstream commit f723edb8a532cd26e1ff0a2b271d73762d48f762 ] Porting overlayfs to the new amount api I started experiencing random crashes that couldn't be explained easily. So after much debugging and reasoning it became clear that struct ovl_entry requires the point to struct vfsmount to be the first member and of type struct vfsmount. During the port I added a new member at the beginning of struct ovl_entry which broke all over the place in the form of random crashes and cache corruptions. While there's a comment in ovl_free_fs() to the effect of "Hack! Reuse ofs->layers as a vfsmount array before freeing it" there's no such comment on struct ovl_entry which makes this easy to trip over. Add a comment and two static asserts for both the offset and the type of pointer in struct ovl_entry. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.