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commitd35d3660e0upstream. The binder driver makes the assumption proc->context pointer is invariant after initialization (as documented in the kerneldoc header for struct proc). However, in commitf0fe2c0f05("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II") proc->context is set to NULL during binder_deferred_release(). Another proc was in the middle of setting up a transaction to the dying process and crashed on a NULL pointer deref on "context" which is a local set to &proc->context: new_ref->data.desc = (node == context->binder_context_mgr_node) ? 0 : 1; Here's the stack: [ 5237.855435] Call trace: [ 5237.855441] binder_get_ref_for_node_olocked+0x100/0x2ec [ 5237.855446] binder_inc_ref_for_node+0x140/0x280 [ 5237.855451] binder_translate_binder+0x1d0/0x388 [ 5237.855456] binder_transaction+0x2228/0x3730 [ 5237.855461] binder_thread_write+0x640/0x25bc [ 5237.855466] binder_ioctl_write_read+0xb0/0x464 [ 5237.855471] binder_ioctl+0x30c/0x96c [ 5237.855477] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3e0/0x700 [ 5237.855482] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x78/0xa4 [ 5237.855488] el0_svc_common+0xb4/0x194 [ 5237.855493] el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x98 [ 5237.855497] el0_svc+0x8/0xc The fix is to move the kfree of the binder_device to binder_free_proc() so the binder_device is freed when we know there are no references remaining on the binder_proc. Fixes:f0fe2c0f05("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II") Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200622200715.114382-1-tkjos@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.