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

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Message-Id: <20200727120424.1627555-1-jannh@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:04:24 +0200
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@...roid.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Mattias Nissler <mnissler@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] binder: Prevent context manager from incrementing ref 0

Binder is designed such that a binder_proc never has references to
itself. If this rule is violated, memory corruption can occur when a
process sends a transaction to itself; see e.g.
<https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=09e05aba06723a94d43d>.

There is a remaining edgecase through which such a transaction-to-self
can still occur from the context of a task with BINDER_SET_CONTEXT_MGR
access:

 - task A opens /dev/binder twice, creating binder_proc instances P1
   and P2
 - P1 becomes context manager
 - P2 calls ACQUIRE on the magic handle 0, allocating index 0 in its
   handle table
 - P1 dies (by closing the /dev/binder fd and waiting a bit)
 - P2 becomes context manager
 - P2 calls ACQUIRE on the magic handle 0, allocating index 1 in its
   handle table
   [this triggers a warning: "binder: 1974:1974 tried to acquire
   reference to desc 0, got 1 instead"]
 - 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)

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@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.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