This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ANDROID: binder: synchronize_rcu() when using POLLFREE. to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: android-binder-synchronize_rcu-when-using-pollfree.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5eeb2ca02a2f6084fc57ae5c244a38baab07033a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:47:15 +0100 Subject: ANDROID: binder: synchronize_rcu() when using POLLFREE. From: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 5eeb2ca02a2f6084fc57ae5c244a38baab07033a upstream. To prevent races with ep_remove_waitqueue() removing the waitqueue at the same time. Reported-by: syzbot+a2a3c4909716e271487e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.14+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/android/binder.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -4322,6 +4322,15 @@ static int binder_thread_release(struct binder_inner_proc_unlock(thread->proc); + /* + * This is needed to avoid races between wake_up_poll() above and + * and ep_remove_waitqueue() called for other reasons (eg the epoll file + * descriptor being closed); ep_remove_waitqueue() holds an RCU read + * lock, so we can be sure it's done after calling synchronize_rcu(). + */ + if (thread->looper & BINDER_LOOPER_STATE_POLL) + synchronize_rcu(); + if (send_reply) binder_send_failed_reply(send_reply, BR_DEAD_REPLY); binder_release_work(proc, &thread->todo); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maco@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/android-binder-synchronize_rcu-when-using-pollfree.patch