From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34292 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751662AbeBWJt2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:28 -0500 Subject: Patch "binder: check for binder_thread allocation failure in binder_poll()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: ebiggers@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, syzkaller@googlegroups.com Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:49:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1519379369235145@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled binder: check for binder_thread allocation failure in binder_poll() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: binder-check-for-binder_thread-allocation-failure-in-binder_poll.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From f88982679f54f75daa5b8eff3da72508f1e7422f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:11:24 -0800 Subject: binder: check for binder_thread allocation failure in binder_poll() From: Eric Biggers commit f88982679f54f75daa5b8eff3da72508f1e7422f upstream. If the kzalloc() in binder_get_thread() fails, binder_poll() dereferences the resulting NULL pointer. Fix it by returning POLLERR if the memory allocation failed. This bug was found by syzkaller using fault injection. Reported-by: syzbot Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/android/binder.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -2622,6 +2622,8 @@ static unsigned int binder_poll(struct f binder_lock(__func__); thread = binder_get_thread(proc); + if (!thread) + return POLLERR; wait_for_proc_work = thread->transaction_stack == NULL && list_empty(&thread->todo) && thread->return_error == BR_OK; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@google.com are queue-4.4/crypto-x86-twofish-3way-fix-rbp-usage.patch queue-4.4/binder-check-for-binder_thread-allocation-failure-in-binder_poll.patch