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Commit 85c2dd54 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by Linus Torvalds
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pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits

pipe-user-pages-hard and pipe-user-pages-soft are only supposed to apply
to unprivileged users, as documented in both Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
and the pipe(7) man page.

However, the capabilities are actually only checked when increasing a
pipe's size using F_SETPIPE_SZ, not when creating a new pipe.  Therefore,
if pipe-user-pages-hard has been set, the root user can run into it and be
unable to create pipes.  Similarly, if pipe-user-pages-soft has been set,
the root user can run into it and have their pipes limited to 1 page each.

Fix this by allowing the privileged override in both cases.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180111052902.14409-4-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Fixes: 759c0114

 ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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