fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:08:22 +0000 (16:08 +0100)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:08:47 +0000 (14:08 +0100)
commit055ca83559912f2cfd91c9441427bac4caf3c74e
tree5b5359aa68b7cd971e5625ca7f9e847145e04399
parent12c1b632d970c0138b4c5c65a1065e7d0604d272
fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()

When you try to splice between a normal pipe and a notification pipe,
get_pipe_info(..., true) fails, so splice() falls back to treating the
notification pipe like a normal pipe - so we end up in
iter_file_splice_write(), which first locks the input pipe, then calls
vfs_iter_write(), which locks the output pipe.

Lockdep complains about that, because we're taking a pipe lock while
already holding another pipe lock.

I think this probably (?) can't actually lead to deadlocks, since you'd
need another way to nest locking a normal pipe into locking a
watch_queue pipe, but the lockdep annotations don't make that clear.

Bail out earlier in pipe_write() for notification pipes, before taking
the pipe lock.

Reported-and-tested-by: <syzbot+011e4ea1da6692cf881c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=011e4ea1da6692cf881c
Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231124150822.2121798-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/pipe.c