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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-08-19 12:17:29 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-09-26 21:08:52 -0400
commit5b249b1b07c42c61d0c53b8ab4fad026e39a9be9 (patch)
tree671b511c34bcae46b69dface3122f08d0ac399bf /fs/pipe.c
parenta79f41ed9786b75ebe75e52295ad54049b8551b6 (diff)
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pipe(2) - race-free error recovery
don't mess with sys_close() if copy_to_user() fails; just postpone fd_install() until we know it hasn't. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c31
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 8d85d7068c1e..bd3479db4b62 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -1064,9 +1064,8 @@ err_inode:
return err;
}
-int do_pipe_flags(int *fd, int flags)
+static int __do_pipe_flags(int *fd, struct file **files, int flags)
{
- struct file *files[2];
int error;
int fdw, fdr;
@@ -1088,11 +1087,8 @@ int do_pipe_flags(int *fd, int flags)
fdw = error;
audit_fd_pair(fdr, fdw);
- fd_install(fdr, files[0]);
- fd_install(fdw, files[1]);
fd[0] = fdr;
fd[1] = fdw;
-
return 0;
err_fdr:
@@ -1103,21 +1099,38 @@ int do_pipe_flags(int *fd, int flags)
return error;
}
+int do_pipe_flags(int *fd, int flags)
+{
+ struct file *files[2];
+ int error = __do_pipe_flags(fd, files, flags);
+ if (!error) {
+ fd_install(fd[0], files[0]);
+ fd_install(fd[1], files[1]);
+ }
+ return error;
+}
+
/*
* sys_pipe() is the normal C calling standard for creating
* a pipe. It's not the way Unix traditionally does this, though.
*/
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pipe2, int __user *, fildes, int, flags)
{
+ struct file *files[2];
int fd[2];
int error;
- error = do_pipe_flags(fd, flags);
+ error = __do_pipe_flags(fd, files, flags);
if (!error) {
- if (copy_to_user(fildes, fd, sizeof(fd))) {
- sys_close(fd[0]);
- sys_close(fd[1]);
+ if (unlikely(copy_to_user(fildes, fd, sizeof(fd)))) {
+ fput(files[0]);
+ fput(files[1]);
+ put_unused_fd(fd[0]);
+ put_unused_fd(fd[1]);
error = -EFAULT;
+ } else {
+ fd_install(fd[0], files[0]);
+ fd_install(fd[1], files[1]);
}
}
return error;