[PATCH v2] binder: Prevent context manager from incrementing ref 0

Martijn Coenen maco at android.com
Tue Jul 28 13:50:30 UTC 2020


Thanks Jann, the change LGTM, one question on the repro scenario that
wasn't immediately obvious to me:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:04 PM Jann Horn <jannh at google.com> wrote:
>  - task B opens /dev/binder once, creating binder_proc instance P3
>  - P3 calls P2 (via magic handle 0) with (void*)1 as argument (two-way
>    transaction)
>  - P2 receives the handle and uses it to call P3 (two-way transaction)
>  - P3 calls P2 (via magic handle 0) (two-way transaction)
>  - P2 calls P2 (via handle 1) (two-way transaction)

Why do you need P3 involved at all? Could P2 just straight away make a
call on handle 1?

>
> And then, if P2 does *NOT* accept the incoming transaction work, but
> instead closes the binder fd, we get a crash.
>
> Solve it by preventing the context manager from using ACQUIRE on ref 0.
> There shouldn't be any legitimate reason for the context manager to do
> that.
>
> Additionally, print a warning if someone manages to find another way to
> trigger a transaction-to-self bug in the future.
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
> Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco at android.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh at google.com>
> ---
> fixed that broken binder_user_error() from the first version...
> I sent v1 while I had a dirty tree containing the missing fix. whoops.
>
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index f50c5f182bb5..5b310eea9e52 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -2982,6 +2982,12 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc,
>                         goto err_dead_binder;
>                 }
>                 e->to_node = target_node->debug_id;
> +               if (WARN_ON(proc == target_proc)) {
> +                       return_error = BR_FAILED_REPLY;
> +                       return_error_param = -EINVAL;
> +                       return_error_line = __LINE__;
> +                       goto err_invalid_target_handle;
> +               }
>                 if (security_binder_transaction(proc->tsk,
>                                                 target_proc->tsk) < 0) {
>                         return_error = BR_FAILED_REPLY;
> @@ -3635,10 +3641,17 @@ static int binder_thread_write(struct binder_proc *proc,
>                                 struct binder_node *ctx_mgr_node;
>                                 mutex_lock(&context->context_mgr_node_lock);
>                                 ctx_mgr_node = context->binder_context_mgr_node;
> -                               if (ctx_mgr_node)
> +                               if (ctx_mgr_node) {
> +                                       if (ctx_mgr_node->proc == proc) {
> +                                               binder_user_error("%d:%d context manager tried to acquire desc 0\n",
> +                                                                 proc->pid, thread->pid);
> +                                               mutex_unlock(&context->context_mgr_node_lock);
> +                                               return -EINVAL;
> +                                       }
>                                         ret = binder_inc_ref_for_node(
>                                                         proc, ctx_mgr_node,
>                                                         strong, NULL, &rdata);
> +                               }
>                                 mutex_unlock(&context->context_mgr_node_lock);
>                         }
>                         if (ret)
>
> base-commit: 2a89b99f580371b86ae9bafd6cbeccd3bfab524a
> --
> 2.28.0.rc0.142.g3c755180ce-goog
>


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