[PATCH] binder: fix memory leak in error path

Todd Kjos tkjos at android.com
Fri Jun 21 17:54:15 UTC 2019


syzkallar found a 32-byte memory leak in a rarely executed error
case. The transaction complete work item was not freed if put_user()
failed when writing the BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE to the user command
buffer. Fixed by freeing it before put_user() is called.

Reported-by: syzbot+182ce46596c3f2e1eb24 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos at google.com>
---
 drivers/android/binder.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index bc26b5511f0a9..8bf039fdeb918 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -4268,6 +4268,8 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc,
 		case BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE: {
 			binder_inner_proc_unlock(proc);
 			cmd = BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE;
+			kfree(w);
+			binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE);
 			if (put_user(cmd, (uint32_t __user *)ptr))
 				return -EFAULT;
 			ptr += sizeof(uint32_t);
@@ -4276,8 +4278,6 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc,
 			binder_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE,
 				     "%d:%d BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE\n",
 				     proc->pid, thread->pid);
-			kfree(w);
-			binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE);
 		} break;
 		case BINDER_WORK_NODE: {
 			struct binder_node *node = container_of(w, struct binder_node, work);
-- 
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog



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