Commit a930d879 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7c6baa30
......@@ -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) {
......
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