[PATCH] binder: fix null deref of proc->context

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Jun 23 08:50:21 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 01:07:15PM -0700, Todd Kjos wrote:
> The binder driver makes the assumption proc->context pointer is invariant after
> initialization (as documented in the kerneldoc header for struct proc).
> However, in commit f0fe2c0f050d ("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II")
> proc->context is set to NULL during binder_deferred_release().
> 
> Another proc was in the middle of setting up a transaction to the dying
> process and crashed on a NULL pointer deref on "context" which is a local
> set to &proc->context:
> 
>     new_ref->data.desc = (node == context->binder_context_mgr_node) ? 0 : 1;
> 
> Here's the stack:
> 
> [ 5237.855435] Call trace:
> [ 5237.855441] binder_get_ref_for_node_olocked+0x100/0x2ec
> [ 5237.855446] binder_inc_ref_for_node+0x140/0x280
> [ 5237.855451] binder_translate_binder+0x1d0/0x388
> [ 5237.855456] binder_transaction+0x2228/0x3730
> [ 5237.855461] binder_thread_write+0x640/0x25bc
> [ 5237.855466] binder_ioctl_write_read+0xb0/0x464
> [ 5237.855471] binder_ioctl+0x30c/0x96c
> [ 5237.855477] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3e0/0x700
> [ 5237.855482] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x78/0xa4
> [ 5237.855488] el0_svc_common+0xb4/0x194
> [ 5237.855493] el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x98
> [ 5237.855497] el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> 
> The fix is to move the kfree of the binder_device to binder_free_proc()
> so the binder_device is freed when we know there are no references
> remaining on the binder_proc.
> 
> Fixes: f0fe2c0f050d ("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II")
> Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos at google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index e47c8a4c83db..f50c5f182bb5 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -4686,8 +4686,15 @@ static struct binder_thread *binder_get_thread(struct binder_proc *proc)
>  
>  static void binder_free_proc(struct binder_proc *proc)
>  {
> +	struct binder_device *device;
> +
>  	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&proc->todo));
>  	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&proc->delivered_death));
> +	device = container_of(proc->context, struct binder_device, context);
> +	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&device->ref)) {
> +		kfree(proc->context->name);
> +		kfree(device);
> +	}

Where is device allocated?

It looks to me like they are allocated in init_binder_device().  So why
are calling misc_deregister?  And it looks like the kfree(proc->context->name);
is wrong as well because that's from the
"device_names = kstrdup(binder_devices_param, GFP_KERNEL);" in
binder_init().

To be honest, I'm a bit confused why we're not doing this in module_exit().

regards,
dan carpenter



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