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| author | Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> | 2019-04-05 14:02:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-04-14 10:00:04 -0700 |
| commit | 15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb (patch) | |
| tree | 1353971310401012cf4b108a375e525065d8bec0 /fs/pipe.c | |
| parent | 8fde12ca79aff9b5ba951fce1a2641901b8d8e64 (diff) | |
| download | linux-15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb.tar.bz2 | |
fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/pipe.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c index bdc5d3c0977d..b1543b85c14a 100644 --- a/fs/pipe.c +++ b/fs/pipe.c @@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_pipe_buf_steal); * in the tee() system call, when we duplicate the buffers in one * pipe into another. */ -void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf) +bool generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf) { - get_page(buf->page); + return try_get_page(buf->page); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_pipe_buf_get); |