From 943211c87427f25bd22e0e63849fb486bb5f87fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddh Raman Pant Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:06:16 +0530 Subject: watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer NULL the dangling pipe reference while clearing watch_queue. If not done, a reference to a freed pipe remains in the watch_queue, as this function is called before freeing a pipe in free_pipe_info() (see line 834 of fs/pipe.c). The sole use of wqueue->defunct is for checking if the watch queue has been cleared, but wqueue->pipe is also NULLed while clearing. Thus, wqueue->defunct is superfluous, as wqueue->pipe can be checked for NULL. Hence, the former can be removed. Tested with keyutils testsuite. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1 Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant Acked-by: David Howells Message-Id: <20230605143616.640517-1-code@siddh.me> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- include/linux/watch_queue.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/watch_queue.h') diff --git a/include/linux/watch_queue.h b/include/linux/watch_queue.h index fc6bba20273b..45cd42f55d49 100644 --- a/include/linux/watch_queue.h +++ b/include/linux/watch_queue.h @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct watch_filter { struct watch_queue { struct rcu_head rcu; struct watch_filter __rcu *filter; - struct pipe_inode_info *pipe; /* The pipe we're using as a buffer */ + struct pipe_inode_info *pipe; /* Pipe we use as a buffer, NULL if queue closed */ struct hlist_head watches; /* Contributory watches */ struct page **notes; /* Preallocated notifications */ unsigned long *notes_bitmap; /* Allocation bitmap for notes */ @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ struct watch_queue { spinlock_t lock; unsigned int nr_notes; /* Number of notes */ unsigned int nr_pages; /* Number of pages in notes[] */ - bool defunct; /* T when queues closed */ }; /* -- cgit v1.2.3