From: Al Viro In kernel/trace/trace.c we have this: static void tracing_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf) { __free_page(buf->page); } static const struct pipe_buf_operations tracing_pipe_buf_ops = { .can_merge = 0, .map = generic_pipe_buf_map, .unmap = generic_pipe_buf_unmap, .confirm = generic_pipe_buf_confirm, .release = tracing_pipe_buf_release, .steal = generic_pipe_buf_steal, .get = generic_pipe_buf_get, }; with void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf) { page_cache_get(buf->page); } and I don't see anything that would've prevented tee(2) called on the pipe that got stuff spliced into it from that sucker. ->ops->get() will be called, then buf gets copied into target pipe's ->bufs[] and eventually readers get to both copies of the buffer. With get_page(page) look at that page __free_page(page) look at that page __free_page(page) which is not a good thing, to put it mildly. AFAICS, that ought to use the normal generic_pipe_buf_release() (aka page_cache_release(buf->page)), shouldn't it? [ SDR - As trace_pipe just allocates the page with alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL), and doesn't do anything special with it (no LRU logic). The __free_page() should be fine, as it wont actually free a page with reference count. Maybe there's a chance to leak memory? Anyway, This change is at a minimum good for being symmetric with generic_pipe_buf_get, it is fine to add. ] Signed-off-by: Al Viro [ SDR - Removed no longer used tracing_pipe_buf_release ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index cee9c1a..20c755e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4243,12 +4243,6 @@ out: return sret; } -static void tracing_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, - struct pipe_buffer *buf) -{ - __free_page(buf->page); -} - static void tracing_spd_release_pipe(struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, unsigned int idx) { @@ -4260,7 +4254,7 @@ static const struct pipe_buf_operations tracing_pipe_buf_ops = { .map = generic_pipe_buf_map, .unmap = generic_pipe_buf_unmap, .confirm = generic_pipe_buf_confirm, - .release = tracing_pipe_buf_release, + .release = generic_pipe_buf_release, .steal = generic_pipe_buf_steal, .get = generic_pipe_buf_get, }; -- 1.8.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/