[PATCH 4.14 26/42] pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-13T15:15:46Z

From: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>

commit 46c4c9d1beb7f5b4cec4dd90e7728720583ee348 upstream.

This program always prints 4096 and hangs before the patch, and always
prints 8192 and exits successfully after:

int main()
{
int pipefd[2];
for (int i = 0; i < 1025; i++)
if (pipe(pipefd) == -1)
return 1;
size_t bufsz = fcntl(pipefd[1], F_GETPIPE_SZ);
printf("%zd\n", bufsz);
char *buf = calloc(bufsz, 1);
write(pipefd[1], buf, bufsz);
read(pipefd[0], buf, bufsz-1);
write(pipefd[1], buf, 1);
}

Note that you may need to increase your RLIMIT_NOFILE before running the
program.

Fixes: 759c01142a ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628086770.5rn8p04n6j.none@localhost/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628127094.lxxn016tj7.none@localhost/
Signed-off-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/pipe.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -30,6 +30,21 @@
#include "internal.h"

/*
+ * New pipe buffers will be restricted to this size while the user is exceeding
+ * their pipe buffer quota. The general pipe use case needs at least two
+ * buffers: one for data yet to be read, and one for new data. If this is less
+ * than two, then a write to a non-empty pipe may block even if the pipe is not
+ * full. This can occur with GNU make jobserver or similar uses of pipes as
+ * semaphores: multiple processes may be waiting to write tokens back to the
+ * pipe before reading tokens: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628086770.5rn8p04n6j.none@localhost/.
+ *
+ * Users can reduce their pipe buffers with F_SETPIPE_SZ below this at their
+ * own risk, namely: pipe writes to non-full pipes may block until the pipe is
+ * emptied.
+ */
+#define PIPE_MIN_DEF_BUFFERS 2
+
+/*
* The max size that a non-root user is allowed to grow the pipe. Can
* be set by root in /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
*/
@@ -654,8 +669,8 @@ struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(
user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, 0, pipe_bufs);

if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user_bufs) && is_unprivileged_user()) {
- user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, pipe_bufs, 1);
- pipe_bufs = 1;
+ user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, pipe_bufs, PIPE_MIN_DEF_BUFFERS);
+ pipe_bufs = PIPE_MIN_DEF_BUFFERS;
}

if (too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user_bufs) && is_unprivileged_user())