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    pipe: match pipe_max_size data type with procfs · 98159d97
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    Patch series "A few round_pipe_size() and pipe-max-size fixups", v3.
    
    While backporting Michael's "pipe: fix limit handling" patchset to a
    distro-kernel, Mikulas noticed that current upstream pipe limit handling
    contains a few problems:
    
      1 - procfs signed wrap: echo'ing a large number into
          /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size and then cat'ing it back out shows a
          negative value.
    
      2 - round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32bit:  this would
          subsequently try roundup_pow_of_two(0), which is undefined.
    
      3 - visible non-rounded pipe-max-size value: there is no mutual
          exclusion or protection between the time pipe_max_size is assigned
          a raw value from proc_dointvec_minmax() and when it is rounded.
    
      4 - unsigned long -> unsigned int conversion makes for potential odd
          return errors from do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv() and
          do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv().
    
    This version underwent the same testing as v1:
    https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150643571406022&w=2
    
    This patch (of 4):
    
    pipe_max_size is defined as an unsigned int:
    
      unsigned int pipe_max_size = 1048576;
    
    but its procfs/sysctl representation is an integer:
    
      static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
              ...
              {
                      .procname       = "pipe-max-size",
                      .data           = &pipe_max_size,
                      .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
                      .mode           = 0644,
                      .proc_handler   = &pipe_proc_fn,
                      .extra1         = &pipe_min_size,
              },
              ...
    
    that is signed:
    
      int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf,
                       size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
      {
              ...
              ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos)
    
    This leads to signed results via procfs for large values of pipe_max_size:
    
      % echo 2147483647 >/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
      % cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
      -2147483648
    
    Use unsigned operations on this variable to avoid such negative values.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-2-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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