Re: [PATCH] pipe: fix potential inode leak in create_pipe_files()

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 11:03:52AM +0800, Zhiqiang Liu wrote:
> 
> In create_pipe_files(), if alloc_file_clone() fails, we will call
> put_pipe_info to release pipe, and call fput() to release f.
> However, we donot call iput() to free inode.

Huh?  Have you actually tried to trigger that failure exit?

> Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Feilong Lin <linfeilong@huawei.com>
> ---
>  fs/pipe.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
> index 0ac197658a2d..8856607fde65 100644
> --- a/fs/pipe.c
> +++ b/fs/pipe.c
> @@ -924,6 +924,7 @@ int create_pipe_files(struct file **res, int flags)
>  	if (IS_ERR(res[0])) {
>  		put_pipe_info(inode, inode->i_pipe);
>  		fput(f);
> +		iput(inode);
>  		return PTR_ERR(res[0]);

No.  That inode is created with refcount 1.  If alloc_file_pseudo()
succeeds, the reference we'd been holding has been transferred into
dentry allocated by alloc_file_pseudo() (and attached to f).
From that point on we do *NOT* own a reference to inode and no
subsequent failure exits have any business releasing it.

In particular, alloc_file_clone() DOES NOT create extra references
to inode, whether it succeeds or fails.  Dropping the reference
to f will take care of everything.

If you tried to trigger that failure exit with your patch applied,
you would've seen double iput(), as soon as you return from sys_pipe()
to userland and task_work is processed (which is where the real
destructor of struct file will happen).

NAK.