From: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:52:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: binder: fix UAF in binder_thread_release()
X-Git-Tag: v7.2-rc3~3^2~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=114a116aaa5f0295376cdf12da743c5bce3b20ce;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

binder: fix UAF in binder_thread_release()

When a thread exits, binder_thread_release() walks its transaction stack
to clear the t->from and t->to_proc that correspond with the exiting
thread. However, a process dying in parallel might attempt to kfree some
of these transactions. And if one of them has no associated t->to_proc,
the t->to_proc->inner_lock will not be acquired.

This means that transaction accesses in binder_thread_release() after
t->to_proc has been cleared might race with binder_free_transaction()
and cause a use-after-free error as reported by KASAN:

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in binder_thread_release+0x5d0/0x798
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff000016627500 by task X/715

  CPU: 17 UID: 0 PID: 715 Comm: X Not tainted 7.1.0-rc5-00149-g8fde5d1d47f6 #30 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   binder_thread_release+0x5d0/0x798
   binder_ioctl+0x12c0/0x299c
   [...]

  Allocated by task 717 on cpu 18 at 67.267803s:
   __kasan_kmalloc+0xa0/0xbc
   __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x174/0x444
   binder_transaction+0x554/0x8150
   binder_thread_write+0xa30/0x4354
   binder_ioctl+0x20f0/0x299c
   [...]

  Freed by task 202 on cpu 18 at 90.416221s:
   __kasan_slab_free+0x58/0x80
   kfree+0x1a0/0x4a4
   binder_free_transaction+0x150/0x294
   binder_send_failed_reply+0x398/0x6d8
   binder_release_work+0x3e4/0x4ec
   binder_deferred_func+0xbd8/0x104c
   [...]
  ==================================================================

In order to avoid this, make sure that binder_free_transaction() reads
the t->to_proc under the transaction lock. This will serialize the
transaction release with the accesses in binder_thread_release(). Plus,
it matches the documented locking rules for @to_proc.

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Fixes: 7a4408c6bd3e ("binder: make sure accesses to proc/thread are safe")
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260619185233.2194678-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index c48c22264266..013e2bfab070 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -1658,7 +1658,11 @@ static void binder_txn_latency_free(struct binder_transaction *t)
 
 static void binder_free_transaction(struct binder_transaction *t)
 {
-	struct binder_proc *target_proc = t->to_proc;
+	struct binder_proc *target_proc;
+
+	spin_lock(&t->lock);
+	target_proc = t->to_proc;
+	spin_unlock(&t->lock);
 
 	if (target_proc) {
 		binder_inner_proc_lock(target_proc);