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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2012-06-12 15:24:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2012-06-13 21:16:42 +0200 |
| commit | 047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c33ef4b076bd54f686afe924cee01e21c55f427 /mm/shmem.c | |
| parent | 27e1f9d1cc87be4e53c6eb7158cafc21c4b85a14 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6.tar.gz lwn-047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6.zip | |
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 'mm/shmem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 585bd220a21e..c244e93a70fa 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1577,6 +1577,7 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct splice_pipe_desc spd = { .pages = pages, .partial = partial, + .nr_pages_max = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS, .flags = flags, .ops = &page_cache_pipe_buf_ops, .spd_release = spd_release_page, @@ -1665,7 +1666,7 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, if (spd.nr_pages) error = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd); - splice_shrink_spd(pipe, &spd); + splice_shrink_spd(&spd); if (error > 0) { *ppos += error; |