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authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>2023-11-24 16:08:22 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2023-11-28 14:08:47 +0100
commit055ca83559912f2cfd91c9441427bac4caf3c74e (patch)
tree5b5359aa68b7cd971e5625ca7f9e847145e04399 /fs/pipe.c
parent12c1b632d970c0138b4c5c65a1065e7d0604d272 (diff)
fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
When you try to splice between a normal pipe and a notification pipe, get_pipe_info(..., true) fails, so splice() falls back to treating the notification pipe like a normal pipe - so we end up in iter_file_splice_write(), which first locks the input pipe, then calls vfs_iter_write(), which locks the output pipe. Lockdep complains about that, because we're taking a pipe lock while already holding another pipe lock. I think this probably (?) can't actually lead to deadlocks, since you'd need another way to nest locking a normal pipe into locking a watch_queue pipe, but the lockdep annotations don't make that clear. Bail out earlier in pipe_write() for notification pipes, before taking the pipe lock. Reported-and-tested-by: <syzbot+011e4ea1da6692cf881c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=011e4ea1da6692cf881c Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231124150822.2121798-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 804a7d789452..226e7f66b590 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -446,6 +446,18 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
bool was_empty = false;
bool wake_next_writer = false;
+ /*
+ * Reject writing to watch queue pipes before the point where we lock
+ * the pipe.
+ * Otherwise, lockdep would be unhappy if the caller already has another
+ * pipe locked.
+ * If we had to support locking a normal pipe and a notification pipe at
+ * the same time, we could set up lockdep annotations for that, but
+ * since we don't actually need that, it's simpler to just bail here.
+ */
+ if (pipe_has_watch_queue(pipe))
+ return -EXDEV;
+
/* Null write succeeds. */
if (unlikely(total_len == 0))
return 0;
@@ -458,11 +470,6 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
goto out;
}
- if (pipe_has_watch_queue(pipe)) {
- ret = -EXDEV;
- goto out;
- }
-
/*
* If it wasn't empty we try to merge new data into
* the last buffer.