watchqueue: make sure to serialize 'wqueue->defunct' properly
When the pipe is closed, we mark the associated watchqueue defunct by calling watch_queue_clear(). However, while that is protected by the watchqueue lock, new watchqueue entries aren't actually added under that lock at all: they use the pipe->rd_wait.lock instead, and looking up that pipe happens without any locking. The watchqueue code uses the RCU read-side section to make sure that the wqueue entry itself hasn't disappeared, but that does not protect the pipe_info in any way. So make sure to actually hold the wqueue lock when posting watch events, properly serializing against the pipe being torn down. Reported-by: Noam Rathaus <noamr@ssd-disclosure.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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