[PATCH 4.14 14/19] binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 03 2022 - 09:23:46 EST


From: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit cfd0d84ba28c18b531648c9d4a35ecca89ad9901 upstream.

In 4.13, commit 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space")
fixed a kernel structure visibility issue. As part of that patch,
sizeof(void *) was used as the buffer size for 0-length data payloads so
the driver could detect abusive clients sending 0-length asynchronous
transactions to a server by enforcing limits on async_free_size.

Unfortunately, on the "free" side, the accounting of async_free_space
did not add the sizeof(void *) back. The result was that up to 8-bytes of
async_free_space were leaked on every async transaction of 8-bytes or
less. These small transactions are uncommon, so this accounting issue
has gone undetected for several years.

The fix is to use "buffer_size" (the allocated buffer size) instead of
"size" (the logical buffer size) when updating the async_free_space
during the free operation. These are the same except for this
corner case of asynchronous transactions with payloads < 8 bytes.

Fixes: 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space")
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.14+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220190150.2107077-1-tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static void binder_free_buf_locked(struc
BUG_ON(buffer->data > alloc->buffer + alloc->buffer_size);

if (buffer->async_transaction) {
- alloc->free_async_space += size + sizeof(struct binder_buffer);
+ alloc->free_async_space += buffer_size + sizeof(struct binder_buffer);

binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_BUFFER_ALLOC_ASYNC,
"%d: binder_free_buf size %zd async free %zd\n",