This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
binder: fix race that allows malicious free of live buffer
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
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From: Todd Kjos tkjos@android.com Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:55:32 -0800 Subject: binder: fix race that allows malicious free of live buffer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Malicious code can attempt to free buffers using the BC_FREE_BUFFER ioctl to binder. There are protections against a user freeing a buffer while in use by the kernel, however there was a window where BC_FREE_BUFFER could be used to free a recently allocated buffer that was not completely initialized. This resulted in a use-after-free detected by KASAN with a malicious test program.
This window is closed by setting the buffer's allow_user_free attribute to 0 when the buffer is allocated or when the user has previously freed it instead of waiting for the caller to set it. The problem was that when the struct buffer was recycled, allow_user_free was stale and set to 1 allowing a free to go through.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos tkjos@google.com Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg arve@android.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/android/binder.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 16 ++++++---------- drivers/android/binder_alloc.h | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c index cb30a524d16d..9f1000d2a40c 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -2974,7 +2974,6 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc, t->buffer = NULL; goto err_binder_alloc_buf_failed; } - t->buffer->allow_user_free = 0; t->buffer->debug_id = t->debug_id; t->buffer->transaction = t; t->buffer->target_node = target_node; @@ -3510,14 +3509,18 @@ static int binder_thread_write(struct binder_proc *proc,
buffer = binder_alloc_prepare_to_free(&proc->alloc, data_ptr); - if (buffer == NULL) { - binder_user_error("%d:%d BC_FREE_BUFFER u%016llx no match\n", - proc->pid, thread->pid, (u64)data_ptr); - break; - } - if (!buffer->allow_user_free) { - binder_user_error("%d:%d BC_FREE_BUFFER u%016llx matched unreturned buffer\n", - proc->pid, thread->pid, (u64)data_ptr); + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(buffer)) { + if (PTR_ERR(buffer) == -EPERM) { + binder_user_error( + "%d:%d BC_FREE_BUFFER u%016llx matched unreturned or currently freeing buffer\n", + proc->pid, thread->pid, + (u64)data_ptr); + } else { + binder_user_error( + "%d:%d BC_FREE_BUFFER u%016llx no match\n", + proc->pid, thread->pid, + (u64)data_ptr); + } break; } binder_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_FREE_BUFFER, diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c index 64fd96eada31..030c98f35cca 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -151,16 +151,12 @@ static struct binder_buffer *binder_alloc_prepare_to_free_locked( else { /* * Guard against user threads attempting to - * free the buffer twice + * free the buffer when in use by kernel or + * after it's already been freed. */ - if (buffer->free_in_progress) { - binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_USER_ERROR, - "%d:%d FREE_BUFFER u%016llx user freed buffer twice\n", - alloc->pid, current->pid, - (u64)user_ptr); - return NULL; - } - buffer->free_in_progress = 1; + if (!buffer->allow_user_free) + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); + buffer->allow_user_free = 0; return buffer; } } @@ -500,7 +496,7 @@ static struct binder_buffer *binder_alloc_new_buf_locked(
rb_erase(best_fit, &alloc->free_buffers); buffer->free = 0; - buffer->free_in_progress = 0; + buffer->allow_user_free = 0; binder_insert_allocated_buffer_locked(alloc, buffer); binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_BUFFER_ALLOC, "%d: binder_alloc_buf size %zd got %pK\n", diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h index 9ef64e563856..fb3238c74c8a 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h @@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ struct binder_buffer { unsigned free:1; unsigned allow_user_free:1; unsigned async_transaction:1; - unsigned free_in_progress:1; - unsigned debug_id:28; + unsigned debug_id:29;
struct binder_transaction *transaction;