Reporting the crash: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in binder_update_page_range This crash has been found in v4.18-rc3 using RaceFuzzer (a modified version of Syzkaller), which we describe more at the end of this report. Our analysis shows that the race occurs when invoking two syscalls concurrently, mmap$binder() and ioctl$BINDER_WRITE_READ. More specifically, since two code lines `alloc->vma = vma;` and `alloc->vma_vm_mm = vma->vm_mm;` in binder_alloc_mmap_handler() is not an atomic operation during mmap$binder() syscall, there is a time window that `alloc->vma` is assigned but `alloc->vma_vm_mm` isn't assigned. It causes the null pointer dereference in binder_alloc_new_buf_locked() since it checks whether `alloc->vma` is NULL, but it doesn't check that `alloc->vma_vm_mm` is NULL. More details on the thread interleaving and the crash log are follows. Thread interleaving: CPU0 (binder_alloc_mmap_handler) CPU1 (binder_alloc_new_buf_locked) ===== ===== // drivers/android/binder_alloc.c // #L718 (v4.18-rc3) alloc->vma = vma; // drivers/android/binder_alloc.c // #L346 (v4.18-rc3) if (alloc->vma == NULL) { ... // alloc->vma is not NULL at this point return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); } ... // #L438 binder_update_page_range(alloc, 0, (void *)PAGE_ALIGN((uintptr_t)buffer->data), end_page_addr); // In binder_update_page_range() #L218 // But still alloc->vma_vm_mm is NULL here if (need_mm && mmget_not_zero(alloc->vma_vm_mm)) alloc->vma_vm_mm = vma->vm_mm; Crash Log: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __atomic_add_unless include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:89 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in atomic_add_unless include/linux/atomic.h:533 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mmget_not_zero include/linux/sched/mm.h:75 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in binder_update_page_range+0xece/0x18e0 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:218 Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000058 by task syz-executor0/11184 CPU: 1 PID: 11184 Comm: syz-executor0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.2-0-g33fbe13 by qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x16e/0x22c lib/dump_stack.c:113 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:352 [inline] kasan_report+0x163/0x380 mm/kasan/report.c:412 check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline] check_memory_region+0x140/0x1a0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267 kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/kasan.c:278 __atomic_add_unless include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:89 [inline] atomic_add_unless include/linux/atomic.h:533 [inline] mmget_not_zero include/linux/sched/mm.h:75 [inline] binder_update_page_range+0xece/0x18e0 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:218 binder_alloc_new_buf_locked drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:443 [inline] binder_alloc_new_buf+0x467/0xc30 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:513 binder_transaction+0x125b/0x4fb0 drivers/android/binder.c:2957 binder_thread_write+0xc08/0x2770 drivers/android/binder.c:3528 binder_ioctl_write_read.isra.39+0x24f/0x8e0 drivers/android/binder.c:4456 binder_ioctl+0xa86/0xf34 drivers/android/binder.c:4596 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline] do_vfs_ioctl+0x154/0xd40 fs/ioctl.c:686 ksys_ioctl+0x94/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:701 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:708 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:706 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x43/0x50 fs/ioctl.c:706 do_syscall_64+0x167/0x4b0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x456469 Code: 1d ba fb ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 0f 83 eb b9 fb ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 RSP: 002b:00007f575f268b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000072bfa0 RCX: 0000000000456469 RDX: 00000000200003c0 RSI: 00000000c0306201 RDI: 0000000000000016 RBP: 00000000000001a2 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f575f2696d4 R13: 00000000ffffffff R14: 00000000006f77d0 R15: 0000000000000000 ================================================================== = About RaceFuzzer RaceFuzzer is a customized version of Syzkaller, specifically tailored to find race condition bugs in the Linux kernel. While we leverage many different technique, the notable feature of RaceFuzzer is in leveraging a custom hypervisor (QEMU/KVM) to interleave the scheduling. In particular, we modified the hypervisor to intentionally stall a per-core execution, which is similar to supporting per-core breakpoint functionality. This allows RaceFuzzer to force the kernel to deterministically trigger racy condition (which may rarely happen in practice due to randomness in scheduling). RaceFuzzer's C repro always pinpoints two racy syscalls. Since C repro's scheduling synchronization should be performed at the user space, its reproducibility is limited (reproduction may take from 1 second to 10 minutes (or even more), depending on a bug). This is because, while RaceFuzzer precisely interleaves the scheduling at the kernel's instruction level when finding this bug, C repro cannot fully utilize such a feature. Please disregard all code related to "should_hypercall" in the C repro, as this is only for our debugging purposes using our own hypervisor. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel