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authorMatthew Wilcox2019-04-05 23:02:10 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2019-04-14 19:00:04 +0200
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parentmm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount (diff)
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fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get
Change pipe_buf_get() to return a bool indicating whether it succeeded in raising the refcount of the page (if the thing in the pipe is a page). This removes another mechanism for overflowing the page refcount. All callers converted to handle a failure. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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