1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/firejail/fs.c b/src/firejail/fs.c
index 0f920996d..3df551d4c 100644
--- a/src/firejail/fs.c
+++ b/src/firejail/fs.c
@@ -889,6 +889,13 @@ void fs_overlayfs(void) {
         if (major == 3 && minor < 18)
                 oldkernel = 1;
 
+        // mounting an overlayfs on top of / seems to be broken for kernels > 4.19
+        // we disable overlayfs for now, pending fixing
+        if (major >= 4 &&minor >= 19) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "Error: OverlayFS disabled for Linux kernels 4.19 and newer, pending fixing.\n");
+                exit(1);
+        }
+
         char *oroot = RUN_OVERLAY_ROOT;
         mkdir_attr(oroot, 0755, 0, 0);
 
@@ -982,8 +989,10 @@ void fs_overlayfs(void) {
         else { // kernel 3.18 or newer
                 if (asprintf(&option, "lowerdir=/,upperdir=%s,workdir=%s", odiff, owork) == -1)
                         errExit("asprintf");
-                if (mount("overlay", oroot, "overlay", MS_MGC_VAL, option) < 0)
+                if (mount("overlay", oroot, "overlay", MS_MGC_VAL, option) < 0) {
+                        fprintf(stderr, "Debug: running on kernel version %d.%d\n", major, minor);
                         errExit("mounting overlayfs");
+                }
 
                 //***************************
                 // issue #263 start code