This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
pipe: match pipe_max_size data type with procfs
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: pipe-match-pipe_max_size-data-type-with-procfs.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017
From: Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:29:17 -0800 Subject: pipe: match pipe_max_size data type with procfs
From: Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 98159d977f71c3b3dee898d1c34e56f520b094e7 ]
Patch series "A few round_pipe_size() and pipe-max-size fixups", v3.
While backporting Michael's "pipe: fix limit handling" patchset to a distro-kernel, Mikulas noticed that current upstream pipe limit handling contains a few problems:
1 - procfs signed wrap: echo'ing a large number into /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size and then cat'ing it back out shows a negative value.
2 - round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32bit: this would subsequently try roundup_pow_of_two(0), which is undefined.
3 - visible non-rounded pipe-max-size value: there is no mutual exclusion or protection between the time pipe_max_size is assigned a raw value from proc_dointvec_minmax() and when it is rounded.
4 - unsigned long -> unsigned int conversion makes for potential odd return errors from do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv() and do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv().
This version underwent the same testing as v1: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150643571406022&w=2
This patch (of 4):
pipe_max_size is defined as an unsigned int:
unsigned int pipe_max_size = 1048576;
but its procfs/sysctl representation is an integer:
static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { ... { .procname = "pipe-max-size", .data = &pipe_max_size, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &pipe_proc_fn, .extra1 = &pipe_min_size, }, ...
that is signed:
int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { ... ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos)
This leads to signed results via procfs for large values of pipe_max_size:
% echo 2147483647 >/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size % cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size -2147483648
Use unsigned operations on this variable to avoid such negative values.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-2-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redh... Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Cc: Michael Kerrisk mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/pipe.c | 2 +- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/pipe.c +++ b/fs/pipe.c @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table { int ret;
- ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos); + ret = proc_douintvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos); if (ret < 0 || !write) return ret;
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { { .procname = "pipe-max-size", .data = &pipe_max_size, - .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .maxlen = sizeof(pipe_max_size), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &pipe_proc_fn, .extra1 = &pipe_min_size,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joe.lawrence@redhat.com are
queue-4.14/pipe-match-pipe_max_size-data-type-with-procfs.patch