pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Tue, 6 Feb 2018 23:41:53 +0000 (15:41 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 7 Feb 2018 02:32:47 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
commit85c2dd5473b2718b4b63e74bfeb1ca876868e11f
treeed089d058c979a7ff1b2e70b0087edb7f11bc75b
parent319e0a21bb7823abbb4818fe2724e572bbac77a2
pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits

pipe-user-pages-hard and pipe-user-pages-soft are only supposed to apply
to unprivileged users, as documented in both Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
and the pipe(7) man page.

However, the capabilities are actually only checked when increasing a
pipe's size using F_SETPIPE_SZ, not when creating a new pipe.  Therefore,
if pipe-user-pages-hard has been set, the root user can run into it and be
unable to create pipes.  Similarly, if pipe-user-pages-soft has been set,
the root user can run into it and have their pipes limited to 1 page each.

Fix this by allowing the privileged override in both cases.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180111052902.14409-4-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Fixes: 759c01142a5d ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/pipe.c