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authorMatthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>2020-02-26 01:46:14 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-03-11 07:51:15 +0100
commitc326585619b99cce3240403faa56f599e06893cb (patch)
tree6663a07016b0db5d424fe8c51df09726c95c8e37 /fs/splice.c
parent842fc0ee42c4949eda996ed7fbe122e75110e919 (diff)
fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get
commit 15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb upstream. Change pipe_buf_get() to return a bool indicating whether it succeeded in raising the refcount of the page (if the thing in the pipe is a page). This removes another mechanism for overflowing the page refcount. All callers converted to handle a failure. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [ 4.4.y backport notes: Regarding the change in generic_pipe_buf_get(), note that page_cache_get() is the same as get_page(). See mainline commit 09cbfeaf1a5a6 "mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros" for context. ] Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/splice.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index fde126369966..57ccc583a172 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1876,7 +1876,11 @@ retry:
* Get a reference to this pipe buffer,
* so we can copy the contents over.
*/
- pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf);
+ if (!pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf)) {
+ if (ret == 0)
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
*obuf = *ibuf;
/*
@@ -1948,7 +1952,11 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe,
* Get a reference to this pipe buffer,
* so we can copy the contents over.
*/
- pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf);
+ if (!pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf)) {
+ if (ret == 0)
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
obuf = opipe->bufs + nbuf;
*obuf = *ibuf;