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From: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
To: tkjos@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	christian@brauner.io, arve@android.com,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	maco@google.com
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org, kernel-team@android.com
Subject: [PATCH] binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:01:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211220190150.2107077-1-tkjos@google.com> (raw)

In 4.13, commit 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space")
fixed a kernel structure visibility issue. As part of that patch,
sizeof(void *) was used as the buffer size for 0-length data payloads so
the driver could detect abusive clients sending 0-length asynchronous
transactions to a server by enforcing limits on async_free_size.

Unfortunately, on the "free" side, the accounting of async_free_space
did not add the sizeof(void *) back. The result was that up to 8-bytes of
async_free_space were leaked on every async transaction of 8-bytes or
less.  These small transactions are uncommon, so this accounting issue
has gone undetected for several years.

The fix is to use "buffer_size" (the allocated buffer size) instead of
"size" (the logical buffer size) when updating the async_free_space
during the free operation. These are the same except for this
corner case of asynchronous transactions with payloads < 8 bytes.

Fixes: 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space")
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
---
 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
index 340515f54498..47bc74a8c7b6 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static void binder_free_buf_locked(struct binder_alloc *alloc,
 	BUG_ON(buffer->user_data > alloc->buffer + alloc->buffer_size);
 
 	if (buffer->async_transaction) {
-		alloc->free_async_space += size + sizeof(struct binder_buffer);
+		alloc->free_async_space += buffer_size + sizeof(struct binder_buffer);
 
 		binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_BUFFER_ALLOC_ASYNC,
 			     "%d: binder_free_buf size %zd async free %zd\n",
-- 
2.34.1.307.g9b7440fafd-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2021-12-20 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-20 19:01 Todd Kjos [this message]
2021-12-20 19:06 ` [PATCH] binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels Todd Kjos
2021-12-21 10:08   ` Greg KH
2021-12-22 14:30 ` Martijn Coenen
2021-12-23  9:47 ` Christian Brauner

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