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binder: remove "invalid inc weak" check
commit d90eeb8 upstream. There are no scenarios where a weak increment is invalid on binder_node. The only possible case where it could be invalid is if the kernel delivers BR_DECREFS to the process that owns the node, and then increments the weak refcount again, effectively "reviving" a dead node. However, that is not possible: when the BR_DECREFS command is delivered, the kernel removes and frees the binder_node. The fact that you were able to call binder_inc_node_nilocked() implies that the node is not yet destroyed, which implies that BR_DECREFS has not been delivered to userspace, so incrementing the weak refcount is valid. Note that it's currently possible to trigger this condition if the owner calls BINDER_THREAD_EXIT while node->has_weak_ref is true. This causes BC_INCREFS on binder_ref instances to fail when they should not. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 457b9a6 ("Staging: android: add binder driver") Reported-by: Yu-Ting Tseng <yutingtseng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251015-binder-weak-inc-v1-1-7914b092c371@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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drivers/android/binder.c

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@@ -846,17 +846,8 @@ static int binder_inc_node_nilocked(struct binder_node *node, int strong,
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} else {
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if (!internal)
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node->local_weak_refs++;
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if (!node->has_weak_ref && list_empty(&node->work.entry)) {
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if (target_list == NULL) {
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pr_err("invalid inc weak node for %d\n",
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node->debug_id);
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return -EINVAL;
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}
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/*
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* See comment above
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*/
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if (!node->has_weak_ref && target_list && list_empty(&node->work.entry))
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binder_enqueue_work_ilocked(&node->work, target_list);
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}
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}
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return 0;
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}

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