Re: [PATCH] fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:08:22 +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> When you try to splice between a normal pipe and a notification pipe,
> get_pipe_info(..., true) fails, so splice() falls back to treating the
> notification pipe like a normal pipe - so we end up in
> iter_file_splice_write(), which first locks the input pipe, then calls
> vfs_iter_write(), which locks the output pipe.
> 
> Lockdep complains about that, because we're taking a pipe lock while
> already holding another pipe lock.
> 
> [...]

Yeah, that looks to be a improvement in general, since you can't upgrade
a regular pipe to a O_NOTIFICATION pipe. IOW, peforming that check with
pipe_lock() isn't necessary.

(The check for watch queue in pipe_set_size() called from pipe_fcntl()
 also wouldn't need to be done with __pipe_lock() held fwiw.)

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Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
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[1/1] fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/efb8f498327c