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pipe: fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size
authorSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:50:05 +0000 (15:50 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:19:34 +0000 (18:19 +1100)
commit736e2986763ba58fca1d7f27403cf0a11d479e2b
treef826f677ae53886ba5665b27fe78353f867167f8
parente1ef6d7ba8968edea400f5801c27f638f88aa2b0
pipe: fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size

When a user with the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE cap tries to F_SETPIPE_SZ a pipe
with size bigger than kmalloc() can alloc it spits out an ugly warning:

[    3.651552] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    3.652644] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2095 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0()
[    3.654313] Pid: 733, comm: a.out Not tainted 3.2.0-rc1+ #4
[    3.655568] Call Trace:
[    3.656207]  [<ffffffff810de163>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0
[    3.657698]  [<ffffffff8107a575>] warn_slowpath_common+0x75/0xb0
[    3.659018]  [<ffffffff8107a675>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[    3.660468]  [<ffffffff810de163>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0
[    3.665725]  [<ffffffff810f5432>] ? handle_pte_fault+0xf2/0x200
[    3.667032]  [<ffffffff8167b849>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x9/0x40
[    3.668283]  [<ffffffff810f2d76>] ? __pte_alloc+0x96/0x150
[    3.669354]  [<ffffffff81121121>] ? get_empty_filp+0x91/0x160
[    3.670238]  [<ffffffff810f6764>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1a4/0x360
[    3.671139]  [<ffffffff810de342>] __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50
[    3.671972]  [<ffffffff811169fb>] __kmalloc+0x12b/0x150
[    3.672782]  [<ffffffff811283f5>] pipe_set_size+0x75/0x120
[    3.673681]  [<ffffffff81129998>] pipe_fcntl+0xf8/0x140
[    3.674833]  [<ffffffff81130264>] do_fcntl+0x2d4/0x410
[    3.675960]  [<ffffffff81129722>] ? do_pipe_flags+0xb2/0x100
[    3.677218]  [<ffffffff81130406>] sys_fcntl+0x66/0xa0
[    3.678037]  [<ffffffff8167c612>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[    3.679008] ---[ end trace 432f702e6db7b5ee ]---

Instead, make kcalloc() handle the overflow case and fail quietly.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/pipe.c