linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/21] binder: fix race between mmput() and do

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20231102185934.773885-4-cmllamas@google.com>
Date:   Thu,  2 Nov 2023 18:59:04 +0000
From:   Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...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 <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 03/21] binder: fix race between mmput() and do_exit()

Task A calls binder_update_page_range() to allocate and insert pages on
a remote address space from Task B. For this, Task A pins the remote mm
via mmget_not_zero() first. This can race with Task B do_exit() and the
final mmput() refcount decrement will come from Task A.

  Task A            | Task B
  ------------------+------------------
  mmget_not_zero()  |
                    |  do_exit()
                    |    exit_mm()
                    |      mmput()
  mmput()           |
    exit_mmap()     |
      remove_vma()  |
        fput()      |

In this case, the work of ____fput() from Task B is queued up in Task A
as TWA_RESUME. So in theory, Task A returns to userspace and the cleanup
work gets executed. However, Task A instead sleep, waiting for a reply
from Task B that never comes (it's dead).

This means the binder_deferred_release() is blocked until an unrelated
binder event forces Task A to go back to userspace. All the associated
death notifications will also be delayed until then.

In order to fix this use mmput_async() that will schedule the work in
the corresponding mm->async_put_work WQ instead of Task A.

Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
index c4d60d81221b..046c3ae9eb8f 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate,
 	}
 	if (mm) {
 		mmap_write_unlock(mm);
-		mmput(mm);
+		mmput_async(mm);
 	}
 	return 0;

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate,
 err_no_vma:
 	if (mm) {
 		mmap_write_unlock(mm);
-		mmput(mm);
+		mmput_async(mm);
 	}
 	return vma ? -ENOMEM : -ESRCH;
 }
-- 
2.42.0.869.gea05f2083d-goog