Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755086AbcDZXft (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:35:49 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:41307 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932475AbcDZXfq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:35:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Al Viro" , "Rabin Vincent" , "Christoph Hellwig" Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 050/115] splice: handle zero nr_pages in splice_to_pipe() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8426:ae4:c500:9cba:69ae:962d:6167 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2430 Lines: 69 3.2.80-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rabin Vincent commit d6785d9152147596f60234157da2b02540c3e60f upstream. Running the following command: busybox cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > /dev/null with any tracing enabled pretty very quickly leads to various NULL pointer dereferences and VM BUG_ON()s, such as these: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020 IP: [] generic_pipe_buf_release+0xc/0x40 Call Trace: [] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0 [] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10 [] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0 [] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380 [] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6d page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page->_count) == 0) kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:367! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC RIP: [] generic_pipe_buf_release+0x3c/0x40 Call Trace: [] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0 [] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10 [] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0 [] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380 [] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0 [] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89 (busybox's cat uses sendfile(2), unlike the coreutils version) This is because tracing_splice_read_pipe() can call splice_to_pipe() with spd->nr_pages == 0. spd_pages underflows in splice_to_pipe() and we fill the page pointers and the other fields of the pipe_buffers with garbage. All other callers of splice_to_pipe() avoid calling it when nr_pages == 0, and we could make tracing_splice_read_pipe() do that too, but it seems reasonable to have splice_to_page() handle this condition gracefully. Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/splice.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ ssize_t splice_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode unsigned int spd_pages = spd->nr_pages; int ret, do_wakeup, page_nr; + if (!spd_pages) + return 0; + ret = 0; do_wakeup = 0; page_nr = 0;