From a930d8790552658140d7d0d2e316af4f0d76a512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:59:49 +0000 Subject: vfs: fix pipe counter breakage If you open a pipe for neither read nor write, the pipe code will not add any usage counters to the pipe, causing the 'struct pipe_inode_info" to be potentially released early. That doesn't normally matter, since you cannot actually use the pipe, but the pipe release code - particularly fasync handling - still expects the actual pipe infrastructure to all be there. And rather than adding NULL pointer checks, let's just disallow this case, the same way we already do for the named pipe ("fifo") case. This is ancient going back to pre-2.4 days, and until trinity, nobody naver noticed. Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/pipe.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c index 64a494cef0a..2234f3f61f8 100644 --- a/fs/pipe.c +++ b/fs/pipe.c @@ -863,6 +863,9 @@ pipe_rdwr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { int ret = -ENOENT; + if (!(filp->f_mode & (FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE))) + return -EINVAL; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); if (inode->i_pipe) { -- cgit v1.2.3