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Eric Biggers committed f7340761812
pipe: read buffer limits atomically
The pipe buffer limits are accessed without any locking, and may be
changed at any time by the sysctl handlers. In theory this could cause
problems for expressions like the following:
pipe_user_pages_hard && user_bufs > pipe_user_pages_hard
... since the assembly code might reference the 'pipe_user_pages_hard'
memory location multiple times, and if the admin removes the limit by
setting it to 0, there is a very brief window where processes could
incorrectly observe the limit to be exceeded.
Fix this by loading the limits with READ_ONCE() prior to use.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180111052902.14409-8-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>