The patch titled
Subject: pipe: make pipe user buffer limit checks more precise
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
pipe-make-pipe-user-buffer-limit-checks-more-precise.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: pipe: make pipe user buffer limit checks more precise
As currently implemented, when creating a new pipe or increasing a pipe's
capacity with fcntl(F_SETPIPE_SZ), the checks against the limits in
/proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-{soft,hard} (added by commit 759c01142a5d0)
do not include the pages required for the new pipe or increased capacity.
In the case of fcntl(F_SETPIPE_SZ), this means that an unprivileged user
can make a one-time capacity increase that pushes the user consumption
over the limits by up to the value specified in /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
(which defaults to 1 MiB, but might be set to a much higher value).
This patch remedies the problem by including the capacity required for the
new pipe or the pipe capacity increase in the check against the limit.
There is a small chance that this change could break user-space, since
there are cases where pipe() and fcntl(F_SETPIPE_SZ) calls that previously
succeeded might fail. However, the chances are small, since (a) the
pipe-user-pages-{soft,hard} limits are new (in 4.5), and the default
soft/hard limits are high/unlimited. Therefore, it seems warranted to
make these limits operate more precisely (and behave more like what users
probably expect).
Using the test program shown in the previous patch, on an unpatched
kernel, we first set some limits:
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-soft
# echo 1000000000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
# echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-hard # 40.96 MB
Then show that we can set a pipe with capacity (100MB) that is
over the hard limit
# sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1 100000000
Loop 1: set pipe capacity to 100000000 bytes
F_SETPIPE_SZ returned 134217728
Now set the capacity to 100MB twice. The second call fails (which is
probably surprising to most users, since it seems like a no-op):
# sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1 100000000 0 100000000
Loop 1: set pipe capacity to 100000000 bytes
F_SETPIPE_SZ returned 134217728
Loop 2: set pipe capacity to 100000000 bytes
Loop 2, pipe 0: F_SETPIPE_SZ failed: fcntl: Operation not permitted
With a patched kernel, setting a capacity over the limit fails at the
first attempt:
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-soft
# echo 1000000000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
# echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-hard
# sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1 100000000
Loop 1: set pipe capacity to 100000000 bytes
Loop 1, pipe 0: F_SETPIPE_SZ failed: fcntl: Operation not permitted
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/db82480c-7956-b89d-1f4e-ba2c94f4067e@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <socketpair@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pipe.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/pipe.c~pipe-make-pipe-user-buffer-limit-checks-more-precise fs/pipe.c
--- a/fs/pipe.c~pipe-make-pipe-user-buffer-limit-checks-more-precise
+++ a/fs/pipe.c
@@ -610,16 +610,20 @@ static void account_pipe_buffers(struct
atomic_long_add(new - old, &pipe->user->pipe_bufs);
}
-static bool too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(struct user_struct *user)
+static bool too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(struct user_struct *user,
+ unsigned int nr_pages)
{
return pipe_user_pages_soft &&
- atomic_long_read(&user->pipe_bufs) >= pipe_user_pages_soft;
+ atomic_long_read(&user->pipe_bufs) + nr_pages >=
+ pipe_user_pages_soft;
}
-static bool too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(struct user_struct *user)
+static bool too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(struct user_struct *user,
+ unsigned int nr_pages)
{
return pipe_user_pages_hard &&
- atomic_long_read(&user->pipe_bufs) >= pipe_user_pages_hard;
+ atomic_long_read(&user->pipe_bufs) + nr_pages >=
+ pipe_user_pages_hard;
}
struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(void)
@@ -631,13 +635,13 @@ struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(
unsigned long pipe_bufs = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS;
struct user_struct *user = get_current_user();
- if (!too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user)) {
- if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user))
- pipe_bufs = 1;
+ if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user, PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS))
+ pipe_bufs = 1;
+
+ if (!too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user, pipe_bufs))
pipe->bufs = kcalloc(pipe_bufs,
sizeof(struct pipe_buffer),
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
- }
if (pipe->bufs) {
init_waitqueue_head(&pipe->wait);
@@ -1132,8 +1136,8 @@ long pipe_fcntl(struct file *file, unsig
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && size > pipe_max_size) {
ret = -EPERM;
goto out;
- } else if ((too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(pipe->user) ||
- too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(pipe->user)) &&
+ } else if ((too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(pipe->user, nr_pages) ||
+ too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(pipe->user, nr_pages)) &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
ret = -EPERM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx are
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