This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
android: binder: fix dangling pointer comparison
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.
From 7b142d8fd0bd4c9bf06ccb72ac4daedb503f0124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:45:33 +0200
Subject: android: binder: fix dangling pointer comparison
If /dev/binder is opened and the opener process then e.g. calls execve,
proc->vma_vm_mm will still point to the location of the now-freed
mm_struct. If the process then calls ioctl(binder_fd, ...), the dangling
proc->vma_vm_mm pointer will be compared to current->mm.
Let the binder take a reference to the mm_struct to avoid this.
v2: use the right refcounter
Fixes: a906d6931f3c ("android: binder: Sanity check at binder ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chen Feng <redacted>
Cc: stable <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/android/binder.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index 16288e777ec3..09fdb425e2f5 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -2962,6 +2962,7 @@ static int binder_open(struct inode *nodp, struct file *filp)
return -ENOMEM;
get_task_struct(current);
proc->tsk = current;
+ atomic_inc(¤t->mm->mm_count);
proc->vma_vm_mm = current->mm;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&proc->todo);
init_waitqueue_head(&proc->wait);
@@ -3167,6 +3168,7 @@ static void binder_deferred_release(struct binder_proc *proc)
vfree(proc->buffer);
}
+ mmdrop(proc->vma_vm_mm);
put_task_struct(proc->tsk);
binder_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_OPEN_CLOSE,
--
2.9.3