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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-06-12 15:24:40 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-06-13 21:16:42 +0200
commit047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6 (patch)
tree9c33ef4b076bd54f686afe924cee01e21c55f427 /kernel/trace
parent27e1f9d1cc87be4e53c6eb7158cafc21c4b85a14 (diff)
downloadlinux-047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6.tar.bz2
splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses
Dave Jones reported a kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3474! triggered by splice_shrink_spd() called from vmsplice_to_pipe() commit 35f3d14dbbc5 (pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes) added capability to adjust pipe->buffers. Problem is some paths don't hold pipe mutex and assume pipe->buffers doesn't change for their duration. Fix this by adding nr_pages_max field in struct splice_pipe_desc, and use it in place of pipe->buffers where appropriate. splice_shrink_spd() loses its struct pipe_inode_info argument. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.35 Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 68032c6177db..288488082224 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3609,6 +3609,7 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
.pages = pages_def,
.partial = partial_def,
.nr_pages = 0, /* This gets updated below. */
+ .nr_pages_max = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS,
.flags = flags,
.ops = &tracing_pipe_buf_ops,
.spd_release = tracing_spd_release_pipe,
@@ -3680,7 +3681,7 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
out:
- splice_shrink_spd(pipe, &spd);
+ splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
return ret;
out_err:
@@ -4231,6 +4232,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
struct splice_pipe_desc spd = {
.pages = pages_def,
.partial = partial_def,
+ .nr_pages_max = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS,
.flags = flags,
.ops = &buffer_pipe_buf_ops,
.spd_release = buffer_spd_release,
@@ -4318,7 +4320,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
}
ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
- splice_shrink_spd(pipe, &spd);
+ splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
out:
return ret;
}