• Al Viro's avatar
    vfs: fix pipe counter breakage · a930d879
    Al Viro authored
    If you open a pipe for neither read nor write, the pipe code will not
    add any usage counters to the pipe, causing the 'struct pipe_inode_info"
    to be potentially released early.
    
    That doesn't normally matter, since you cannot actually use the pipe,
    but the pipe release code - particularly fasync handling - still expects
    the actual pipe infrastructure to all be there.  And rather than adding
    NULL pointer checks, let's just disallow this case, the same way we
    already do for the named pipe ("fifo") case.
    
    This is ancient going back to pre-2.4 days, and until trinity, nobody
    naver noticed.
    Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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