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SubjectRe: [PATCH] autofs: clear O_NONBLOCK on the pipe.
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On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 10:37 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> autofs does not expect the pipe it is given
> to have O_NONBLOCK set - specifically if __kernel_write()
> in autofs_write() returns -EAGAIN, this is treated
> as a fatal error and the pipe is closed.
>
> For safety autofs should, therefore, clear the O_NONBLOCK flag.
>
> Releases of systemd prior to 8th February 2019 used
> pipe2(p, O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC)
> and thus (inadvertently) set this flag.

Thanks Neil, this does look like an obvious problem.

>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
> ---
> fs/autofs/autofs_i.h | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/autofs/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs/autofs_i.h
> index 3e59f0ed777b..331192bed0d5 100644
> --- a/fs/autofs/autofs_i.h
> +++ b/fs/autofs/autofs_i.h
> @@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ static inline int autofs_prepare_pipe(struct file *pipe)
> return -EINVAL;
> /* We want a packet pipe */
> pipe->f_flags |= O_DIRECT;
> + /* We don't expect -EAGAIN */
> + pipe->f_flags &= ~O_NONBLOCK;
> return 0;
> }
>

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