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Jann Horn
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This fixes multiple issues in buffer_pipe_buf_ops:
- The ->steal() handler must not return zero unless the pipe buffer has
the only reference to the page. But generic_pipe_buf_steal() assumes
that every reference to the pipe is tracked by the page's refcount,
which isn't true for these buffers - buffer_pipe_buf_get(), which
duplicates a buffer, doesn't touch the page's refcount.
Fix it by using generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(), which refuses every
attempted theft. It should be easy to actually support ->steal, but the
only current users of pipe_buf_steal() are the virtio console and FUSE,
and they also only use it as an optimization. So it's probably not worth
the effort.
- The ->get() and ->release() handlers can be invoked concurrently on pipe
buffers backed by the same struct buffer_ref. Make them safe against
concurrency by using refcount_t.
- The pointers stored in ->private were only zeroed out when the last
reference to the buffer_ref was dropped. As far as I know, this
shouldn't be necessary anyway, but if we do it, let's always do it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 73a757e631 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
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