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SubjectRe: [PATCH] binderfs: use refcount for binder control devices too
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:53 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Binderfs binder-control devices are cleaned up via binderfs_evict_inode
> too() which will use refcount_dec_and_test(). However, we missed to set
> the refcount for binderfs binder-control devices and so we underflowed
> when the binderfs instance got unmounted. Pretty obvious oversight and
> should have been part of the more general UAF fix. The good news is that
> having test cases (suprisingly) helps.
>
> Technically, we could detect that we're about to cleanup the
> binder-control dentry in binderfs_evict_inode() and then simply clean it
> up. But that makes the assumption that the binder driver itself will
> never make use of a binderfs binder-control device after the binderfs
> instance it belongs to has been unmounted and the superblock for it been
> destroyed. While it is unlikely to ever come to this let's be on the
> safe side. Performance-wise this also really doesn't matter since the
> binder-control device is only every really when creating the binderfs
> filesystem or creating additional binder devices. Both operations are
> pretty rare.
>
> Fixes: f0fe2c0f050d ("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYusdfg7PMfC9Xce-xLT7NiyKSbgojpK35GOm=Pf9jXXrA@mail.gmail.com
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>

> ---
> drivers/android/binderfs.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binderfs.c b/drivers/android/binderfs.c
> index 110e41f920c2..f303106b3362 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binderfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binderfs.c
> @@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ static int binderfs_binder_ctl_create(struct super_block *sb)
> inode->i_uid = info->root_uid;
> inode->i_gid = info->root_gid;
>
> + refcount_set(&device->ref, 1);
> device->binderfs_inode = inode;
> device->miscdev.minor = minor;
>
>
> base-commit: 2c523b344dfa65a3738e7039832044aa133c75fb
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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