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    pipe: fix incorrect caching of pipe state over pipe_wait() · ec057595
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Similarly to commit 8f868d68 ("pipe: Fix missing mask update after
    pipe_wait()") this fixes a case where the pipe rewrite ended up caching
    the pipe state incorrectly over a pipe lock drop event.
    
    It wasn't quite as obvious, because you needed to splice data from a
    pipe to a file, which is a fairly unusual operation, but it's completely
    wrong.
    
    Make sure we load the pipe head/tail/size information only after we've
    waited for there to be data in the pipe.
    
    While in that file, also make one of the splice helper functions use the
    canonical arghument order for pipe_empty().  That's syntactic - pipe
    emptiness is just that head and tail are equal, and thus mixing up head
    and tail doesn't really matter.  It's still wrong, though.
    Reported-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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