Before this patch, it was possible for two pipes to affect each other after
data had been transferred between them with tee():
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$ cat tee_test.c
int main(void) {
int pipe_a[2];
if (pipe(pipe_a)) err(1, "pipe");
int pipe_b[2];
if (pipe(pipe_b)) err(1, "pipe");
if (write(pipe_a[1], "abcd", 4) != 4) err(1, "write");
if (tee(pipe_a[0], pipe_b[1], 2, 0) != 2) err(1, "tee");
if (write(pipe_b[1], "xx", 2) != 2) err(1, "write");
As suggested by Al Viro, fix it by creating a separate type for
non-mergeable pipe buffers, then changing the types of buffers in
splice_pipe_to_pipe() and link_pipe().
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 22ec1c65407e ("splice: implement pipe to pipe splicing") Fixes: 62175119e2f1 ("[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()") Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>