Re: fs/pipe.c null pointer dereference

[Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>]

Earl Chew wrote:
> Is this possible via /proc/pid/fd/* ?

The window for failure is small. It's easiest to reproduce
this problem by stalling pipe_rdwr_open() to open up the
window:

--- pipe.c.orig 2009-10-15 20:33:53.000000000 -0700
+++ pipe.c      2009-10-15 20:17:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -736,2 +736,3 @@
  {
+       msleep(100);
         mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);


With the failure window widened, it's easy to reproduce
the failure with:

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#!/bin/sh

while : ; do
   { echo y ; sleep 1 ; } | { while read ; do echo z$REPLY; done ; } &
   PID=$!
   OUT=$(ps -efl | grep 'sleep 1' | grep -v grep |
        { read PID REST ; echo $PID; } )
   OUT="${OUT%% *}"
   DELAY=$((RANDOM * 1000 / 32768))
   usleep $((DELAY * 1000 + RANDOM % 1000 ))
   echo n > /proc/$OUT/fd/1
done
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