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From: Georgios Androutsopoulos <georgeandrout13@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, cmllamas@google.com, aliceryhl@google.com
Cc: arve@android.com, tkjos@android.com, brauner@kernel.org,
	ojeda@kernel.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, gary@garyguo.net,
	bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com, lossin@kernel.org,
	a.hindborg@kernel.org, tmgross@umich.edu, dakr@kernel.org,
	paul@paul-moore.com, work@onurozkan.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	Georgios Androutsopoulos <georgeandrout13@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] rust_binder: add ownership assertion to Node::add_death
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:09:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260616170956.2580772-1-georgeandrout13@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260610133241.374115-1-georgeandrout13@gmail.com>

The `// SAFETY:` comment in NodeDeath::set_cleared assumes that a
NodeDeath is never inserted into the death list of any Node other than
its owner. However, this invariant is not enforced by the safe function
Node::add_death, which inserts NodeDeath into the death list without
checking that death.node == self, leaving a risk for future code that
may miss this implicit invariant and cause undefined behavior.

Add an assertion to make this precondition explicit and catch potential
violations early.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1237

Signed-off-by: Georgios Androutsopoulos <georgeandrout13@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Reverted to assert!() following feedback from Alice Ryhl.

Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260610133241.374115-1-georgeandrout13@gmail.com/
---
 drivers/android/binder/node.rs | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder/node.rs b/drivers/android/binder/node.rs
index 69f757ff7461..20eaaefbd4cc 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder/node.rs
+++ b/drivers/android/binder/node.rs
@@ -333,6 +333,10 @@ pub(crate) fn add_death(
         death: ListArc<DTRWrap<NodeDeath>, 1>,
         guard: &mut Guard<'_, ProcessInner, SpinLockBackend>,
     ) {
+        assert!(
+            core::ptr::eq(self, &**death.node),
+            "attempt to add NodeDeath to the wrong death list"
+        );
         self.inner.access_mut(guard).death_list.push_back(death);
     }
 
-- 
2.47.3


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-16 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-10  3:55 [PATCH] rust_binder: add ownership assertion to Node::add_death Georgios Androutsopoulos
2026-06-10  5:45 ` Onur Özkan
2026-06-10  6:07   ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-06-10 13:39     ` Gary Guo
2026-06-11  8:15       ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-06-11 10:31         ` Gary Guo
2026-06-11 13:22           ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-06-10 13:32 ` [PATCH v2] " Georgios Androutsopoulos
2026-06-10 14:21   ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-06-11  7:42   ` Alice Ryhl
2026-06-11 22:26     ` George Androutsopoulos
2026-06-16  7:12       ` Alice Ryhl
2026-06-16 17:09   ` Georgios Androutsopoulos [this message]

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