From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arve@android.com, tkjos@android.com,
brauner@kernel.org, cmllamas@google.com, mo@sdhn.cc,
wedsonaf@gmail.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust_binder: use a u64 stride when cleaning up the offsets array
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:27:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akY9L2CUlTFHA0dM@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ahw3tFhLz9bMMJAO@v4bel>
On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 10:29:24PM +0900, Hyunwoo Kim wrote:
> Allocation's Drop walks the offsets array (binder_size_t = u64 entries),
> cleaning up the objects, but it used usize instead of u64 for both the
> stride and the per-entry read.
>
> On 64-bit kernels (usize == u64) this is harmless, but on 32-bit kernels
> it walks the 8-byte entries in 4-byte steps, iterating an N-entry array
> 2N times, and reads the always-zero high word as offset 0, cleaning up
> the object at offset 0 N extra times. As a result the referenced node or
> handle ends up with a lower reference count than it actually has (a
> refcount over-decrement), and binder's reference accounting is corrupted;
> for example, the owner can be notified of a strong reference release
> (BR_RELEASE) even though references still remain.
>
> Change the stride to u64, and read each entry as a u64, narrowing it to
> usize with try_into().
>
> On 32-bit ARM, when this over-decrement would drive a count below zero,
> the driver's existing refcount guard refuses it and fires:
>
> rust_binder: Failure: refcount underflow!
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: eafedbc7c050 ("rust_binder: add Rust Binder driver")
> Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-31 13:29 [PATCH v2] rust_binder: use a u64 stride when cleaning up the offsets array Hyunwoo Kim
2026-06-27 0:00 ` Carlos Llamas
2026-07-02 10:27 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
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