[PATCH] binder: tell userspace to dump current backtrace when detecting oneway spamming

From: Hang Lu
Date: Wed Mar 31 2021 - 03:37:09 EST


When async binder buffer got exhausted, some normal oneway transaction
will also be discarded and finally caused system/app stop. By that time,
the binder debug information we dump may not relevant to the root cause.
And this issue is difficult to debug if without the backtrace of thread
sending spam.

This change will send BR_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT to userspace when detecting
oneway spamming, request to dump current backtrace. The detection will
happened only once when exceeding the threshold (target process dips
below 80% of its oneway space, and current process is responsible for
either more than 50 transactions, or more than 50% of the oneway space).
And the detection will restart when the async buffer has returned to a
healthy state.

Signed-off-by: Hang Lu <hangl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/android/binder.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
drivers/android/binder_alloc.h | 8 +++++++-
drivers/android/binder_internal.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h | 8 ++++++++
5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index c119736..28ceaf9 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(binder_dead_nodes_lock);
static struct dentry *binder_debugfs_dir_entry_root;
static struct dentry *binder_debugfs_dir_entry_proc;
static atomic_t binder_last_id;
+static bool oneway_spam_detection_enabled;

static int proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *unused);
DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(proc);
@@ -3007,7 +3008,10 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc,
goto err_bad_object_type;
}
}
- tcomplete->type = BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE;
+ if (t->buffer->oneway_spam_suspect)
+ tcomplete->type = BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT;
+ else
+ tcomplete->type = BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE;
t->work.type = BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION;

if (reply) {
@@ -3875,9 +3879,14 @@ static int binder_thread_read(struct binder_proc *proc,

binder_stat_br(proc, thread, cmd);
} break;
- case BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE: {
+ case BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE:
+ case BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT: {
binder_inner_proc_unlock(proc);
- cmd = BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE;
+ if (oneway_spam_detection_enabled &&
+ w->type == BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT)
+ cmd = BR_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT;
+ else
+ cmd = BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE;
kfree(w);
binder_stats_deleted(BINDER_STAT_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE);
if (put_user(cmd, (uint32_t __user *)ptr))
@@ -4727,6 +4736,16 @@ static long binder_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
}
break;
}
+ case BINDER_ENABLE_ONEWAY_SPAM_DETECTION: {
+ uint32_t enable;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&enable, ubuf, sizeof(enable))) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }
+ oneway_spam_detection_enabled = (bool)enable;
+ break;
+ }
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
goto err;
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
index 7caf74a..a09872b 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static inline struct vm_area_struct *binder_alloc_get_vma(
return vma;
}

-static void debug_low_async_space_locked(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int pid)
+static bool debug_low_async_space_locked(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int pid)
{
/*
* Find the amount and size of buffers allocated by the current caller;
@@ -366,13 +366,19 @@ static void debug_low_async_space_locked(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int pid)

/*
* Warn if this pid has more than 50 transactions, or more than 50% of
- * async space (which is 25% of total buffer size).
+ * async space (which is 25% of total buffer size). Oneway spam only
+ * detect once when exceed the threshold.
*/
if (num_buffers > 50 || total_alloc_size > alloc->buffer_size / 4) {
binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_USER_ERROR,
"%d: pid %d spamming oneway? %zd buffers allocated for a total size of %zd\n",
alloc->pid, pid, num_buffers, total_alloc_size);
+ if (!alloc->oneway_spam_detected) {
+ alloc->oneway_spam_detected = true;
+ return true;
+ }
}
+ return false;
}

static struct binder_buffer *binder_alloc_new_buf_locked(
@@ -525,6 +531,7 @@ static struct binder_buffer *binder_alloc_new_buf_locked(
buffer->async_transaction = is_async;
buffer->extra_buffers_size = extra_buffers_size;
buffer->pid = pid;
+ buffer->oneway_spam_suspect = false;
if (is_async) {
alloc->free_async_space -= size + sizeof(struct binder_buffer);
binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_BUFFER_ALLOC_ASYNC,
@@ -536,7 +543,9 @@ static struct binder_buffer *binder_alloc_new_buf_locked(
* of async space left (which is less than 10% of total
* buffer size).
*/
- debug_low_async_space_locked(alloc, pid);
+ buffer->oneway_spam_suspect = debug_low_async_space_locked(alloc, pid);
+ } else {
+ alloc->oneway_spam_detected = false;
}
}
return buffer;
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h
index 6e8e001..7dea57a 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ struct binder_transaction;
* @clear_on_free: %true if buffer must be zeroed after use
* @allow_user_free: %true if user is allowed to free buffer
* @async_transaction: %true if buffer is in use for an async txn
+ * @oneway_spam_suspect: %true if total async allocate size just exceed
+ * spamming detect threshold
* @debug_id: unique ID for debugging
* @transaction: pointer to associated struct binder_transaction
* @target_node: struct binder_node associated with this buffer
@@ -45,7 +47,8 @@ struct binder_buffer {
unsigned clear_on_free:1;
unsigned allow_user_free:1;
unsigned async_transaction:1;
- unsigned debug_id:28;
+ unsigned oneway_spam_suspect:1;
+ unsigned debug_id:27;

struct binder_transaction *transaction;

@@ -87,6 +90,8 @@ struct binder_lru_page {
* @buffer_size: size of address space specified via mmap
* @pid: pid for associated binder_proc (invariant after init)
* @pages_high: high watermark of offset in @pages
+ * @oneway_spam_detected: %true if oneway spam detection fired, clear that
+ * flag once the async buffer has returned to a healthy state
*
* Bookkeeping structure for per-proc address space management for binder
* buffers. It is normally initialized during binder_init() and binder_mmap()
@@ -107,6 +112,7 @@ struct binder_alloc {
uint32_t buffer_free;
int pid;
size_t pages_high;
+ bool oneway_spam_detected;
};

#ifdef CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_SELFTEST
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_internal.h b/drivers/android/binder_internal.h
index 6cd7901..e380545 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_internal.h
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ struct binder_work {
enum binder_work_type {
BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION = 1,
BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE,
+ BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT,
BINDER_WORK_RETURN_ERROR,
BINDER_WORK_NODE,
BINDER_WORK_DEAD_BINDER,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h b/include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h
index ec84ad1..d0da772 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ struct binder_node_info_for_ref {
#define BINDER_GET_NODE_DEBUG_INFO _IOWR('b', 11, struct binder_node_debug_info)
#define BINDER_GET_NODE_INFO_FOR_REF _IOWR('b', 12, struct binder_node_info_for_ref)
#define BINDER_SET_CONTEXT_MGR_EXT _IOW('b', 13, struct flat_binder_object)
+#define BINDER_ENABLE_ONEWAY_SPAM_DETECTION _IOW('b', 15, __u32)

/*
* NOTE: Two special error codes you should check for when calling
@@ -408,6 +409,13 @@ enum binder_driver_return_protocol {
* The last transaction (either a bcTRANSACTION or
* a bcATTEMPT_ACQUIRE) failed (e.g. out of memory). No parameters.
*/
+
+ BR_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT = _IO('r', 19),
+ /*
+ * Current process sent too many oneway calls to target, and the last
+ * asynchronous transaction makes the allocated async buffer size exceed
+ * detection threshold. No parameters.
+ */
};

enum binder_driver_command_protocol {
--
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