From: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"open list:ANDROID DRIVERS" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Martijn Coenen" <maco@google.com>,
"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
"Android Kernel Team" <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binder: fix possible UAF when freeing buffer
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:43:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHRSSEwqg9dOddrPE1dUBwOqTbkR+tvzS41hQSpJD4o-f9YX4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190613054136.GA19717@kroah.com>
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:41 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:29:27PM -0700, Todd Kjos wrote:
> > There is a race between the binder driver cleaning
> > up a completed transaction via binder_free_transaction()
> > and a user calling binder_ioctl(BC_FREE_BUFFER) to
> > release a buffer. It doesn't matter which is first but
> > they need to be protected against running concurrently
> > which can result in a UAF.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/android/binder.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Does this also need to go to the stable kernels?
This patch won't apply cleanly to stable kernels so I'll submit a new
patch directly to stable@ (4.14, 4.19) once this one lands.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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2019-06-12 20:29 Todd Kjos
2019-06-13 5:41 ` Greg KH
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