linux.git/drivers/android/binder.c, branch v6.6.132

binder: don't use %pK through printk

2026-03-04T12:20:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit 56d21267663bad91e8b10121224ec46366a7937e ]

In the past %pK was preferable to %p as it would not leak raw pointer
values into the kernel log. Since commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash
addresses printed with %p") the regular %p has been improved to avoid
this issue. Furthermore, restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant
to be used through printk(). They can still unintentionally leak raw
pointers or acquire sleeping locks in atomic contexts.

Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer and
easier to reason about.

There are still a few users of %pK left, but these use it through
seq_file, for which its usage is safe.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Acked-by: Carlos Llamas 
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107-restricted-pointers-binder-v1-1-181018bf3812@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

binder: fix BR_FROZEN_REPLY error log

2026-02-11T12:39:09+00:00

commit 1769f90e5ba2a6d24bb46b85da33fe861c68f005 upstream.

The error logging for failed transactions is misleading as it always
reports "dead process or thread" even when the target is actually
frozen. Additionally, the pid and tid are reversed which can further
confuse debugging efforts. Fix both issues.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Steven Moreland 
Fixes: a15dac8b2286 ("binder: additional transaction error logs")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123175702.2154348-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: remove "invalid inc weak" check

2025-10-29T13:07:05+00:00

commit d90eeb8ecd227c204ab6c34a17b372bd950b7aa2 upstream.

There are no scenarios where a weak increment is invalid on binder_node.
The only possible case where it could be invalid is if the kernel
delivers BR_DECREFS to the process that owns the node, and then
increments the weak refcount again, effectively "reviving" a dead node.

However, that is not possible: when the BR_DECREFS command is delivered,
the kernel removes and frees the binder_node. The fact that you were
able to call binder_inc_node_nilocked() implies that the node is not yet
destroyed, which implies that BR_DECREFS has not been delivered to
userspace, so incrementing the weak refcount is valid.

Note that it's currently possible to trigger this condition if the owner
calls BINDER_THREAD_EXIT while node->has_weak_ref is true. This causes
BC_INCREFS on binder_ref instances to fail when they should not.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
Reported-by: Yu-Ting Tseng 
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251015-binder-weak-inc-v1-1-7914b092c371@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: fix UAF caused by offsets overwrite

2024-09-12T09:11:41+00:00

commit 4df153652cc46545722879415937582028c18af5 upstream.

Binder objects are processed and copied individually into the target
buffer during transactions. Any raw data in-between these objects is
copied as well. However, this raw data copy lacks an out-of-bounds
check. If the raw data exceeds the data section size then the copy
overwrites the offsets section. This eventually triggers an error that
attempts to unwind the processed objects. However, at this point the
offsets used to index these objects are now corrupted.

Unwinding with corrupted offsets can result in decrements of arbitrary
nodes and lead to their premature release. Other users of such nodes are
left with a dangling pointer triggering a use-after-free. This issue is
made evident by the following KASAN report (trimmed):

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock+0xe4/0x19c
  Write of size 4 at addr ffff47fc91598f04 by task binder-util/743

  CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 743 Comm: binder-util Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4 #1
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   _raw_spin_lock+0xe4/0x19c
   binder_free_buf+0x128/0x434
   binder_thread_write+0x8a4/0x3260
   binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x258c
  [...]

  Allocated by task 743:
   __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x110/0x270
   binder_new_node+0x50/0x700
   binder_transaction+0x413c/0x6da8
   binder_thread_write+0x978/0x3260
   binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x258c
  [...]

  Freed by task 745:
   kfree+0xbc/0x208
   binder_thread_read+0x1c5c/0x37d4
   binder_ioctl+0x16d8/0x258c
  [...]
  ==================================================================

To avoid this issue, let's check that the raw data copy is within the
boundaries of the data section.

Fixes: 6d98eb95b450 ("binder: avoid potential data leakage when copying txn")
Cc: Todd Kjos 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240822182353.2129600-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: fix hang of unregistered readers

2024-08-03T06:54:21+00:00

commit 31643d84b8c3d9c846aa0e20bc033e46c68c7e7d upstream.

With the introduction of binder_available_for_proc_work_ilocked() in
commit 1b77e9dcc3da ("ANDROID: binder: remove proc waitqueue") a binder
thread can only "wait_for_proc_work" after its thread->looper has been
marked as BINDER_LOOPER_STATE_{ENTERED|REGISTERED}.

This means an unregistered reader risks waiting indefinitely for work
since it never gets added to the proc->waiting_threads. If there are no
further references to its waitqueue either the task will hang. The same
applies to readers using the (e)poll interface.

I couldn't find the rationale behind this restriction. So this patch
restores the previous behavior of allowing unregistered threads to
"wait_for_proc_work". Note that an error message for this scenario,
which had previously become unreachable, is now re-enabled.

Fixes: 1b77e9dcc3da ("ANDROID: binder: remove proc waitqueue")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martijn Coenen 
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg 
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240711201452.2017543-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: fix max_thread type inconsistency

2024-05-25T14:22:54+00:00

commit 42316941335644a98335f209daafa4c122f28983 upstream.

The type defined for the BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS ioctl was changed from
size_t to __u32 in order to avoid incompatibility issues between 32 and
64-bit kernels. However, the internal types used to copy from user and
store the value were never updated. Use u32 to fix the inconsistency.

Fixes: a9350fc859ae ("staging: android: binder: fix BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS declaration")
Reported-by: Arve Hjønnevåg 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240421173750.3117808-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: check offset alignment in binder_get_object()

2024-04-27T15:11:38+00:00

commit aaef73821a3b0194a01bd23ca77774f704a04d40 upstream.

Commit 6d98eb95b450 ("binder: avoid potential data leakage when copying
txn") introduced changes to how binder objects are copied. In doing so,
it unintentionally removed an offset alignment check done through calls
to binder_alloc_copy_from_buffer() -> check_buffer().

These calls were replaced in binder_get_object() with copy_from_user(),
so now an explicit offset alignment check is needed here. This avoids
later complications when unwinding the objects gets harder.

It is worth noting this check existed prior to commit 7a67a39320df
("binder: add function to copy binder object from buffer"), likely
removed due to redundancy at the time.

Fixes: 6d98eb95b450 ("binder: avoid potential data leakage when copying txn")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Acked-by: Todd Kjos 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240330190115.1877819-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: signal epoll threads of self-work

2024-02-23T08:25:04+00:00

commit 97830f3c3088638ff90b20dfba2eb4d487bf14d7 upstream.

In (e)poll mode, threads often depend on I/O events to determine when
data is ready for consumption. Within binder, a thread may initiate a
command via BINDER_WRITE_READ without a read buffer and then make use
of epoll_wait() or similar to consume any responses afterwards.

It is then crucial that epoll threads are signaled via wakeup when they
queue their own work. Otherwise, they risk waiting indefinitely for an
event leaving their work unhandled. What is worse, subsequent commands
won't trigger a wakeup either as the thread has pending work.

Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg 
Cc: Martijn Coenen 
Cc: Alice Ryhl 
Cc: Steven Moreland 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131215347.1808751-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: use EPOLLERR from eventpoll.h

2024-01-20T10:51:48+00:00

commit 6ac061db9c58ca5b9270b1b3940d2464fb3ff183 upstream.

Use EPOLLERR instead of POLLERR to make sure it is cast to the correct
__poll_t type. This fixes the following sparse issue:

  drivers/android/binder.c:5030:24: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different base types)
  drivers/android/binder.c:5030:24:    expected restricted __poll_t
  drivers/android/binder.c:5030:24:    got int

Fixes: f88982679f54 ("binder: check for binder_thread allocation failure in binder_poll()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Biggers 
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl 
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-2-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: fix memory leaks of spam and pending work

2023-10-05T10:48:08+00:00

A transaction complete work is allocated and queued for each
transaction. Under certain conditions the work->type might be marked as
BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT to notify userspace about
potential spamming threads or as BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_PENDING when
the target is currently frozen.

However, these work types are not being handled in binder_release_work()
so they will leak during a cleanup. This was reported by syzkaller with
the following kmemleak dump:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810e2d6de0 (size 32):
  comm "syz-executor338", pid 5046, jiffies 4294968230 (age 13.590s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    e0 6d 2d 0e 81 88 ff ff e0 6d 2d 0e 81 88 ff ff  .m-......m-.....
    04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1114
    [] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:599 [inline]
    [] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:720 [inline]
    [] binder_transaction+0x573/0x4050 drivers/android/binder.c:3152
    [] binder_thread_write+0x6b5/0x1860 drivers/android/binder.c:4010
    [] binder_ioctl_write_read drivers/android/binder.c:5066 [inline]
    [] binder_ioctl+0x1b2c/0x3cf0 drivers/android/binder.c:5352
    [] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    [] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
    [] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:857 [inline]
    [] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf2/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:857
    [] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
    [] do_syscall_64+0x38/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
    [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Fix the leaks by kfreeing these work types in binder_release_work() and
handle them as a BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE cleanup.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0567461a7a6e ("binder: return pending info for frozen async txns")
Fixes: a7dc1e6f99df ("binder: tell userspace to dump current backtrace when detected oneway spamming")
Reported-by: syzbot+7f10c1653e35933c0f1e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7f10c1653e35933c0f1e
Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl 
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas 
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl 
Acked-by: Todd Kjos 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922175138.230331-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman