CVE-2026-23400

rust_binder: call set_notification_done() without proc lock

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 29, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rust_binder: call set_notification_done() without proc lock

Consider the following sequence of events on a death listener: 1. The remote process dies and sends a BR_DEAD_BINDER message. 2. The local process invokes the BC_CLEAR_DEATH_NOTIFICATION command. 3. The local process then invokes the BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE. Then, the kernel will reply to the BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE command with a BR_CLEAR_DEATH_NOTIFICATION_DONE reply using push_work_if_looper().

However, this can result in a deadlock if the current thread is not a looper. This is because dead_binder_done() still holds the proc lock during set_notification_done(), which called push_work_if_looper(). Normally, push_work_if_looper() takes the thread lock, which is fine to take under the proc lock. But if the current thread is not a looper, then it falls back to delivering the reply to the process work queue, which involves taking the proc lock. Since the proc lock is already held, this is a deadlock.

Fix this by releasing the proc lock during set_notification_done(). It was not intentional that it was held during that function to begin with.

I don't think this ever happens in Android because BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE is only invoked in response to BR_DEAD_BINDER messages, and the kernel always delivers BR_DEAD_BINDER to a looper. So there's no scenario where Android userspace will call BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE on a non-looper thread.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to before dd109e3442817bc03ad1f3ffd541092f8c428141Affected
  • eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to before 3be72099067d2cd4a0e089696f19780f75b2b88aAffected
  • eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to before 2e303f0febb65a434040774b793ba8356698802bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.19 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.9 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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