linux-kernel - Re: PATCH: fd leak if pipe() is called with an invalid address.

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:12:11 +0800
From:	Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: fd leak if pipe() is called with an invalid address.

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:21:55PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>fd leak if pipe() is called with an invalid address.
>
>Though -EFAULT is returned, the file descriptors opened by pipe() call
>are left open.

Looks reasonable.

>
>Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>


Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

>----
>
> x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c     |    5 ++++-
> xtensa/kernel/syscall.c |    5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
>--- arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c.orig	2009-07-02 15:08:39.000000000 +0800
>+++ arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c	2009-07-02 15:09:49.000000000 +0800
>@@ -197,8 +197,11 @@
> 	retval = do_pipe_flags(fds, 0);
> 	if (retval)
> 		goto out;
>-	if (copy_to_user(fd, fds, sizeof(fds)))
>+	if (copy_to_user(fd, fds, sizeof(fds))) {
>+		sys_close(fd[0]);
>+		sys_close(fd[1]);
> 		retval = -EFAULT;
>+	}
> out:
> 	return retval;
> }
>--- arch/xtensa/kernel/syscall.c.orig	2009-07-02 15:09:01.000000000 +0800
>+++ arch/xtensa/kernel/syscall.c	2009-07-02 15:10:15.000000000 +0800
>@@ -51,8 +51,11 @@
> 
> 	error = do_pipe_flags(fd, 0);
> 	if (!error) {
>-		if (copy_to_user(userfds, fd, 2 * sizeof(int)))
>+		if (copy_to_user(userfds, fd, 2 * sizeof(int))) {
>+			sys_close(fd[0]);
>+			sys_close(fd[1]);
> 			error = -EFAULT;
>+		}
> 	}
> 	return error;
> }
>
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