commit 9a9ab0d963621d9d12199df9817e66982582d5a5 upstream.
Task A calls binder_update_page_range() to allocate and insert pages on a remote address space from Task B. For this, Task A pins the remote mm via mmget_not_zero() first. This can race with Task B do_exit() and the final mmput() refcount decrement will come from Task A.
Task A | Task B ------------------+------------------ mmget_not_zero() | | do_exit() | exit_mm() | mmput() mmput() | exit_mmap() | remove_vma() | fput() |
In this case, the work of ____fput() from Task B is queued up in Task A as TWA_RESUME. So in theory, Task A returns to userspace and the cleanup work gets executed. However, Task A instead sleep, waiting for a reply from Task B that never comes (it's dead).
This means the binder_deferred_release() is blocked until an unrelated binder event forces Task A to go back to userspace. All the associated death notifications will also be delayed until then.
In order to fix this use mmput_async() that will schedule the work in the corresponding mm->async_put_work WQ instead of Task A.
Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver") Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl aliceryhl@google.com Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-4-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org [cmllamas: fix trivial conflict with missing d8ed45c5dcd4.] Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com --- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c index d0d422b5e243..d2c887d96d33 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate, } if (mm) { up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); - mmput(mm); + mmput_async(mm); } return 0;
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate, err_no_vma: if (mm) { up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); - mmput(mm); + mmput_async(mm); } return vma ? -ENOMEM : -ESRCH; }
base-commit: 9153fc9664959aa6bb35915b2bbd8fbc4c762962 prerequisite-patch-id: 040c7991c3b5fb63a9d12350a1400c91a057f7d5