Re: [PATCH] binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices
From: Tiffany Yang
Date: Tue May 27 2025 - 22:35:49 EST
"'Carlos Llamas' via kernel-team" <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Commit e77aff5528a18 ("binderfs: fix use-after-free in binder_devices")
> addressed a use-after-free where devices could be released without first
> being removed from the binder_devices list. However, there is a similar
> path in binder_free_proc() that was missed:
>
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binder_remove_device+0xd4/0x100
> Write of size 8 at addr ffff0000c773b900 by task umount/467
> CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 467 Comm: umount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-00138-g57483a362741 #9 PREEMPT
> Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> Call trace:
> binder_remove_device+0xd4/0x100
> binderfs_evict_inode+0x230/0x2f0
> evict+0x25c/0x5dc
> iput+0x304/0x480
> dentry_unlink_inode+0x208/0x46c
> __dentry_kill+0x154/0x530
> [...]
>
> Allocated by task 463:
> __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x13c/0x324
> binderfs_binder_device_create.isra.0+0x138/0xa60
> binder_ctl_ioctl+0x1ac/0x230
> [...]
>
> Freed by task 215:
> kfree+0x184/0x31c
> binder_proc_dec_tmpref+0x33c/0x4ac
> binder_deferred_func+0xc10/0x1108
> process_one_work+0x520/0xba4
> [...]
> ==================================================================
>
> Call binder_remove_device() within binder_free_proc() to ensure the
> device is removed from the binder_devices list before being kfreed.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 12d909cac1e1 ("binderfs: add new binder devices to binder_devices")
> Reported-by: syzbot+4af454407ec393de51d6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4af454407ec393de51d6
> Tested-by: syzbot+4af454407ec393de51d6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/android/binder.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index 682bbe4ad550..c463ca4a8fff 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -5241,6 +5241,7 @@ static void binder_free_proc(struct binder_proc *proc)
> __func__, proc->outstanding_txns);
> device = container_of(proc->context, struct binder_device, context);
> if (refcount_dec_and_test(&device->ref)) {
> + binder_remove_device(device);
> kfree(proc->context->name);
> kfree(device);
> }
Reviewed-by: Tiffany Yang <ynaffit@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Tiffany Y. Yang