The patch titled Subject: android: binder: fix lockdep check on clearing vma has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is android-binder-fix-lockdep-check-on-clearing-vma.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/android-binder-fix-lockdep-check-on-clearing-vma.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: android: binder: fix lockdep check on clearing vma Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:18:59 +0000 When munmapping a vma, the mmap_lock can be degraded to a write before calling close() on the file handle. The binder close() function calls binder_alloc_set_vma() to clear the vma address, which now has a lock dep check for writing on the mmap_lock. Change the lockdep check to ensure the reading lock is held while clearing and keep the write check while writing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627151857.2316964-1-Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 472a68df605b ("android: binder: stop saving a pointer to the VMA") Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+da54fa8d793ca89c741f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c~android-binder-fix-lockdep-check-on-clearing-vma +++ a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -315,12 +315,19 @@ static inline void binder_alloc_set_vma( { unsigned long vm_start = 0; + /* + * Allow clearing the vma with holding just the read lock to allow + * munmapping downgrade of the write lock before freeing and closing the + * file using binder_alloc_vma_close(). + */ if (vma) { vm_start = vma->vm_start; alloc->vma_vm_mm = vma->vm_mm; + mmap_assert_write_locked(alloc->vma_vm_mm); + } else { + mmap_assert_locked(alloc->vma_vm_mm); } - mmap_assert_write_locked(alloc->vma_vm_mm); alloc->vma_addr = vm_start; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx are android-binder-fix-lockdep-check-on-clearing-vma.patch maple-tree-add-new-data-structure-fix.patch lib-test_maple_tree-add-testing-for-maple-tree-fix.patch mm-mlock-drop-dead-code-in-count_mm_mlocked_page_nr.patch