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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:50:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Earl Chew <earl_chew@...lent.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1]: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference


[ adding some CCs, so that this userspace-triggerable NULL pointer 
  dereference doesn't get lost in the deep dark waters of LKML ]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Earl Chew wrote:

> This patch fixes a null pointer exception in pipe_rdwr_open() which
> generates the stack trace:
> 
> 
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 RIP:
> >  [<ffffffff802899a5>] pipe_rdwr_open+0x35/0x70
> >  [<ffffffff8028125c>] __dentry_open+0x13c/0x230
> >  [<ffffffff8028143d>] do_filp_open+0x2d/0x40
> >  [<ffffffff802814aa>] do_sys_open+0x5a/0x100
> >  [<ffffffff8021faf3>] sysenter_do_call+0x1b/0x67
> 
> This defect is also described in:
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14416
> 
> 
> The failure mode is triggered by an attempt to open an anonymous
> pipe via /proc/pid/fd/* as exemplified by this script:
> 
> =============================================================
> #!/bin/sh
> while : ; do
>    { echo y ; sleep 1 ; } | { while read ; do echo z$REPLY; done ; } &
>    PID=$!
>    OUT=$(ps -efl | grep 'sleep 1' | grep -v grep |
>         { read PID REST ; echo $PID; } )
>    OUT="${OUT%% *}"
>    DELAY=$((RANDOM * 1000 / 32768))
>    usleep $((DELAY * 1000 + RANDOM % 1000 ))
>    echo n > /proc/$OUT/fd/1                 # Trigger defect
> done
> =============================================================
> 
> Note that the failure window is quite small and I could only
> reliably reproduce the defect by inserting a small delay
> in pipe_rdwr_open(). For example:
> 
>  static int
>  pipe_rdwr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>  {
>        msleep(100);
>        mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> 
> 
> Although the defect was observed in pipe_rdwr_open(), I think it
> makes sense to replicate the change through all the pipe_*_open()
> functions.
> 
> The core of the change is to verify that inode->i_pipe has not
> been released before attempting to manipulate it. If inode->i_pipe
> is no longer present, return ENOENT to indicate so.
> 
> The comment about potentially using atomic_t for i_pipe->readers
> and i_pipe->writers has also been removed because it is no longer
> relevant in this context. The inode->i_mutex lock must be used so
> that inode->i_pipe can be dealt with correctly.
> 
> 
> 
> --- linux-2.6.21_mvlcge500/fs/pipe.c.orig	2009-10-15 20:33:53.000000000
> -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21_mvlcge500/fs/pipe.c	2009-10-15 21:21:25.000000000 -0700
> @@ -712,36 +712,55 @@ pipe_rdwr_release(struct inode *inode, s
>  static int
>  pipe_read_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>  {
> -	/* We could have perhaps used atomic_t, but this and friends
> -	   below are the only places.  So it doesn't seem worthwhile.  */
> +	int ret = -ENOENT;
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> -	inode->i_pipe->readers++;
> +
> +	if (inode->i_pipe) {
> +		ret = 0;
> +		inode->i_pipe->readers++;
> +	}
> +
>  	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> 
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
> 
>  static int
>  pipe_write_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>  {
> +	int ret = -ENOENT;
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> -	inode->i_pipe->writers++;
> +
> +	if (inode->i_pipe) {
> +		ret = 0;
> +		inode->i_pipe->writers++;
> +	}
> +
>  	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> 
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
> 
>  static int
>  pipe_rdwr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>  {
> +	int ret = -ENOENT;
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> -	if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_READ)
> -		inode->i_pipe->readers++;
> -	if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
> -		inode->i_pipe->writers++;
> +
> +	if (inode->i_pipe) {
> +		ret = 0;
> +		if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_READ)
> +			inode->i_pipe->readers++;
> +		if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
> +			inode->i_pipe->writers++;
> +	}
> +
>  	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> 
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
> 
>  /*
> 
> 
> 
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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