Re: [PATCH resend] binder: Prevent context manager from incrementing ref 0

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:40 PM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Binder is designed such that a binder_proc never has references to
> itself. If this rule is violated, memory corruption can occur when a
> process sends a transaction to itself; see e.g.
> <https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=09e05aba06723a94d43d>.
>
> There is a remaining edgecase through which such a transaction-to-self
> can still occur from the context of a task with BINDER_SET_CONTEXT_MGR
> access:
>
>  - task A opens /dev/binder twice, creating binder_proc instances P1
>    and P2
>  - P1 becomes context manager
>  - P2 calls ACQUIRE on the magic handle 0, allocating index 0 in its
>    handle table
>  - P1 dies (by closing the /dev/binder fd and waiting a bit)
>  - P2 becomes context manager
>  - P2 calls ACQUIRE on the magic handle 0, allocating index 1 in its
>    handle table
>    [this triggers a warning: "binder: 1974:1974 tried to acquire
>    reference to desc 0, got 1 instead"]
>  - task B opens /dev/binder once, creating binder_proc instance P3
>  - P3 calls P2 (via magic handle 0) with (void*)1 as argument (two-way
>    transaction)
>  - P2 receives the handle and uses it to call P3 (two-way transaction)
>  - P3 calls P2 (via magic handle 0) (two-way transaction)
>  - P2 calls P2 (via handle 1) (two-way transaction)
>
> And then, if P2 does *NOT* accept the incoming transaction work, but
> instead closes the binder fd, we get a crash.
>
> Solve it by preventing the context manager from using ACQUIRE on ref 0.
> There shouldn't be any legitimate reason for the context manager to do
> that.
>
> Additionally, print a warning if someone manages to find another way to
> trigger a transaction-to-self bug in the future.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nice catch.

Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> sending again because I forgot to CC LKML the first time... sorry about
> the spam.
>
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index f50c5f182bb5..cac65ff3a257 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -2982,6 +2982,12 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc,
>                         goto err_dead_binder;
>                 }
>                 e->to_node = target_node->debug_id;
> +               if (WARN_ON(proc == target_proc)) {
> +                       return_error = BR_FAILED_REPLY;
> +                       return_error_param = -EINVAL;
> +                       return_error_line = __LINE__;
> +                       goto err_invalid_target_handle;
> +               }
>                 if (security_binder_transaction(proc->tsk,
>                                                 target_proc->tsk) < 0) {
>                         return_error = BR_FAILED_REPLY;
> @@ -3635,10 +3641,16 @@ static int binder_thread_write(struct binder_proc *proc,
>                                 struct binder_node *ctx_mgr_node;
>                                 mutex_lock(&context->context_mgr_node_lock);
>                                 ctx_mgr_node = context->binder_context_mgr_node;
> -                               if (ctx_mgr_node)
> +                               if (ctx_mgr_node) {
> +                                       if (ctx_mgr_node->proc == proc) {
> +                                               binder_user_error("%d:%d context manager tried to acquire desc 0\n");
> +                                               mutex_unlock(&context->context_mgr_node_lock);
> +                                               return -EINVAL;
> +                                       }
>                                         ret = binder_inc_ref_for_node(
>                                                         proc, ctx_mgr_node,
>                                                         strong, NULL, &rdata);
> +                               }
>                                 mutex_unlock(&context->context_mgr_node_lock);
>                         }
>                         if (ret)
>
> base-commit: 2a89b99f580371b86ae9bafd6cbeccd3bfab524a
> --
> 2.27.0.389.gc38d7665816-goog
>
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