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pipe(2) - race-free error recovery
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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>
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Al Viro committed Sep 27, 2012
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31 changes: 22 additions & 9 deletions fs/pipe.c
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Expand Up @@ -1064,9 +1064,8 @@ int create_pipe_files(struct file **res, int flags)
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;

Expand All @@ -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:
Expand All @@ -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;
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