This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
watch_queue-prevent-dangling-pipe-pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 943211c87427f25bd22e0e63849fb486bb5f87fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddh Raman Pant <code@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:06:16 +0530
Subject: watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer
From: Siddh Raman Pant <code@xxxxxxxx>
commit 943211c87427f25bd22e0e63849fb486bb5f87fa upstream.
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.1
Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <code@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20230605143616.640517-1-code@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/watch_queue.h | 3 +--
kernel/watch_queue.c | 12 ++++++------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- 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 */
};
/*
--- a/kernel/watch_queue.c
+++ b/kernel/watch_queue.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
static inline bool lock_wqueue(struct watch_queue *wqueue)
{
spin_lock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
- if (unlikely(wqueue->defunct)) {
+ if (unlikely(!wqueue->pipe)) {
spin_unlock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
return false;
}
@@ -105,9 +105,6 @@ static bool post_one_notification(struct
unsigned int head, tail, mask, note, offset, len;
bool done = false;
- if (!pipe)
- return false;
-
spin_lock_irq(&pipe->rd_wait.lock);
mask = pipe->ring_size - 1;
@@ -604,8 +601,11 @@ void watch_queue_clear(struct watch_queu
rcu_read_lock();
spin_lock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
- /* Prevent new notifications from being stored. */
- wqueue->defunct = true;
+ /*
+ * This pipe can be freed by callers like free_pipe_info().
+ * Removing this reference also prevents new notifications.
+ */
+ wqueue->pipe = NULL;
while (!hlist_empty(&wqueue->watches)) {
watch = hlist_entry(wqueue->watches.first, struct watch, queue_node);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from code@xxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/watch_queue-prevent-dangling-pipe-pointer.patch
