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>
diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
index ab56a17..e8cd202 100644
--- a/kernel/relay.c
+++ b/kernel/relay.c
@@ -1235,6 +1235,7 @@
struct splice_pipe_desc spd = {
.pages = pages,
.nr_pages = 0,
+ .nr_pages_max = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS,
.partial = partial,
.flags = flags,
.ops = &relay_pipe_buf_ops,
@@ -1302,8 +1303,8 @@
ret += padding;
out:
- splice_shrink_spd(pipe, &spd);
- return ret;
+ splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
+ return ret;
}
static ssize_t relay_file_splice_read(struct file *in,