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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 5a3bb3b..3f2a42c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -108,18 +108,20 @@ struct pipe_buf_operations {
/*
* Get a reference to the pipe buffer.
*/
- void (*get)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
+ bool (*get)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
};
/**
* pipe_buf_get - get a reference to a pipe_buffer
* @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
* @buf: the buffer to get a reference to
+ *
+ * Return: %true if the reference was successfully obtained.
*/
-static inline void pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+static inline __must_check bool pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
- buf->ops->get(pipe, buf);
+ return buf->ops->get(pipe, buf);
}
/**
@@ -178,7 +180,7 @@ struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(void);
void free_pipe_info(struct pipe_inode_info *);
/* Generic pipe buffer ops functions */
-void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
+bool generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
int generic_pipe_buf_confirm(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
int generic_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
void generic_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
