1bdc347e64
commit a0ce2f0aa6ad97c3d4927bf2ca54bcebdf062d55 upstream.
Before this patch, it was possible for two pipes to affect each other after
data had been transferred between them with tee():
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$ cat tee_test.c
int main(void) {
int pipe_a[2];
if (pipe(pipe_a)) err(1, "pipe");
int pipe_b[2];
if (pipe(pipe_b)) err(1, "pipe");
if (write(pipe_a[1], "abcd", 4) != 4) err(1, "write");
if (tee(pipe_a[0], pipe_b[1], 2, 0) != 2) err(1, "tee");
if (write(pipe_b[1], "xx", 2) != 2) err(1, "write");
char buf[5];
if (read(pipe_a[0], buf, 4) != 4) err(1, "read");
buf[4] = 0;
printf("got back: '%s'\n", buf);
}
$ gcc -o tee_test tee_test.c
$ ./tee_test
got back: 'abxx'
$
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As suggested by Al Viro, fix it by creating a separate type for
non-mergeable pipe buffers, then changing the types of buffers in
splice_pipe_to_pipe() and link_pipe().
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 7c77f0b3f920 ("splice: implement pipe to pipe splicing")
Fixes: 70524490ee2e ("[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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