This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

binder: fix memory leak in error path

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-testing 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 be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Todd Kjos tkjos@android.com Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:54:15 -0700 Subject: binder: fix memory leak in error path

syzkallar found a 32-byte memory leak in a rarely executed error case. The transaction complete work item was not freed if put_user() failed when writing the BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE to the user command buffer. Fixed by freeing it before put_user() is called.

Reported-by: syzbot+182ce46596c3f2e1eb24@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos tkjos@google.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/android/binder.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c index 748ac489ef7e..8b108e9b31cc 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -4256,6 +4256,8 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc, case BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE: { binder_inner_proc_unlock(proc); cmd = BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE; + kfree(w); + binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE); if (put_user(cmd, (uint32_t __user *)ptr)) return -EFAULT; ptr += sizeof(uint32_t); @@ -4264,8 +4266,6 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc, binder_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE, "%d:%d BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE\n", proc->pid, thread->pid); - kfree(w); - binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE); } break; case BINDER_WORK_NODE: { struct binder_node *node = container_of(w, struct binder_node, work);