Re: [PATCH] binder: validate alloc->mm in ->mmap() handler

[Todd Kjos]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:12 PM Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since commit 1da52815d5f1 ("binder: fix alloc->vma_vm_mm null-ptr
> dereference") binder caches a pointer to the current->mm during open().
> This fixes a null-ptr dereference reported by syzkaller. Unfortunately,
> it also opens the door for a process to update its mm after the open(),
> (e.g. via execve) making the cached alloc->mm pointer invalid.
>
> Things get worse when the process continues to mmap() a vma. From this
> point forward, binder will attempt to find this vma using an obsolete
> alloc->mm reference. Such as in binder_update_page_range(), where the
> wrong vma is obtained via vma_lookup(), yet binder proceeds to happily
> insert new pages into it.
>
> To avoid this issue fail the ->mmap() callback if we detect a mismatch
> between the vma->vm_mm and the original alloc->mm pointer. This prevents
> alloc->vm_addr from getting set, so that any subsequent vma_lookup()
> calls fail as expected.
>
> Fixes: 1da52815d5f1 ("binder: fix alloc->vma_vm_mm null-ptr dereference")
> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.15+
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
> index 1c39cfce32fa..4ad42b0f75cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
> @@ -739,6 +739,12 @@ int binder_alloc_mmap_handler(struct binder_alloc *alloc,
>         const char *failure_string;
>         struct binder_buffer *buffer;
>
> +       if (unlikely(vma->vm_mm != alloc->mm)) {
> +               ret = -EINVAL;
> +               failure_string = "invalid vma->vm_mm";
> +               goto err_invalid_mm;
> +       }
> +
>         mutex_lock(&binder_alloc_mmap_lock);
>         if (alloc->buffer_size) {
>                 ret = -EBUSY;
> @@ -785,6 +791,7 @@ int binder_alloc_mmap_handler(struct binder_alloc *alloc,
>         alloc->buffer_size = 0;
>  err_already_mapped:
>         mutex_unlock(&binder_alloc_mmap_lock);
> +err_invalid_mm:
>         binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_USER_ERROR,
>                            "%s: %d %lx-%lx %s failed %d\n", __func__,
>                            alloc->pid, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
> --
> 2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog
>