[PATCH] binder: fix memory leak in error path

From: Todd Kjos
Date: Fri Jun 21 2019 - 13:54:33 EST


syzkallar found a 32-byte memory leak in a rarely executed error
case. The transaction complete work item was not freed if put_user()
failed when writing the BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE to the user command
buffer. Fixed by freeing it before put_user() is called.

Reported-by: syzbot+182ce46596c3f2e1eb24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/android/binder.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index bc26b5511f0a9..8bf039fdeb918 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -4268,6 +4268,8 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc,
case BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE: {
binder_inner_proc_unlock(proc);
cmd = BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE;
+ kfree(w);
+ binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE);
if (put_user(cmd, (uint32_t __user *)ptr))
return -EFAULT;
ptr += sizeof(uint32_t);
@@ -4276,8 +4278,6 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc,
binder_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE,
"%d:%d BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE\n",
proc->pid, thread->pid);
- kfree(w);
- binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE);
} break;
case BINDER_WORK_NODE: {
struct binder_node *node = container_of(w, struct binder_node, work);
--
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog