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<updated>2019-06-09T07:17:23+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>binder: fix race between munmap() and direct reclaim</title>
<updated>2019-06-09T07:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Todd Kjos</name>
<email>tkjos@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-05T16:38:25+00:00</published>
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commit 5cec2d2e5839f9c0fec319c523a911e0a7fd299f upstream.

An munmap() on a binder device causes binder_vma_close() to be called
which clears the alloc-&gt;vma pointer.

If direct reclaim causes binder_alloc_free_page() to be called, there
is a race where alloc-&gt;vma is read into a local vma pointer and then
used later after the mm-&gt;mmap_sem is acquired. This can result in
calling zap_page_range() with an invalid vma which manifests as a
use-after-free in zap_page_range().

The fix is to check alloc-&gt;vma after acquiring the mmap_sem (which we
were acquiring anyway) and skip zap_page_range() if it has changed
to NULL.

Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "binder: fix handling of misaligned binder object"</title>
<updated>2019-06-09T07:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Todd Kjos</name>
<email>tkjos@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-05T16:38:24+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This reverts commit 6bf7d3c5c0c5dad650bfc4345ed553c18b69d59e.

The commit message is for a different patch. Reverting and then adding
the same patch back with the correct commit message.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>binder: fix handling of misaligned binder object</title>
<updated>2019-05-02T07:58:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Todd Kjos</name>
<email>tkjos@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-14T23:22:57+00:00</published>
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commit 26528be6720bb40bc8844e97ee73a37e530e9c5e upstream.

Fixes crash found by syzbot:
kernel BUG at drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:LINE! (2)

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+55de1eb4975dec156d8f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.0, 4.19, 4.14
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>binder: fix race that allows malicious free of live buffer</title>
<updated>2018-12-05T18:32:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Todd Kjos</name>
<email>tkjos@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-06T23:55:32+00:00</published>
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commit 7bada55ab50697861eee6bb7d60b41e68a961a9c upstream.

Malicious code can attempt to free buffers using the BC_FREE_BUFFER
ioctl to binder. There are protections against a user freeing a buffer
while in use by the kernel, however there was a window where
BC_FREE_BUFFER could be used to free a recently allocated buffer that
was not completely initialized. This resulted in a use-after-free
detected by KASAN with a malicious test program.

This window is closed by setting the buffer's allow_user_free attribute
to 0 when the buffer is allocated or when the user has previously freed
it instead of waiting for the caller to set it. The problem was that
when the struct buffer was recycled, allow_user_free was stale and set
to 1 allowing a free to go through.

Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg &lt;arve@android.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.14
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>android: binder: fix the race mmap and alloc_new_buf_locked</title>
<updated>2018-09-12T07:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-23T05:29:56+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
There is RaceFuzzer report like below because we have no lock to close
below the race between binder_mmap and binder_alloc_new_buf_locked.
To close the race, let's use memory barrier so that if someone see
alloc-&gt;vma is not NULL, alloc-&gt;vma_vm_mm should be never NULL.

(I didn't add stable mark intentionallybecause standard android
userspace libraries that interact with binder (libbinder &amp; libhwbinder)
prevent the mmap/ioctl race. - from Todd)

"
Thread interleaving:
CPU0 (binder_alloc_mmap_handler)              CPU1 (binder_alloc_new_buf_locked)
=====                                         =====
// drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
// #L718 (v4.18-rc3)
alloc-&gt;vma = vma;
                                              // drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
                                              // #L346 (v4.18-rc3)
                                              if (alloc-&gt;vma == NULL) {
                                                  ...
                                                  // alloc-&gt;vma is not NULL at this point
                                                  return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
                                              }
                                              ...
                                              // #L438
                                              binder_update_page_range(alloc, 0,
                                                      (void *)PAGE_ALIGN((uintptr_t)buffer-&gt;data),
                                                      end_page_addr);

                                              // In binder_update_page_range() #L218
                                              // But still alloc-&gt;vma_vm_mm is NULL here
                                              if (need_mm &amp;&amp; mmget_not_zero(alloc-&gt;vma_vm_mm))
alloc-&gt;vma_vm_mm = vma-&gt;vm_mm;

Crash Log:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __atomic_add_unless include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:89 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in atomic_add_unless include/linux/atomic.h:533 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mmget_not_zero include/linux/sched/mm.h:75 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in binder_update_page_range+0xece/0x18e0 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:218
Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000058 by task syz-executor0/11184

CPU: 1 PID: 11184 Comm: syz-executor0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.2-0-g33fbe13 by qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x16e/0x22c lib/dump_stack.c:113
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:352 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x163/0x380 mm/kasan/report.c:412
 check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline]
 check_memory_region+0x140/0x1a0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267
 kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/kasan.c:278
 __atomic_add_unless include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:89 [inline]
 atomic_add_unless include/linux/atomic.h:533 [inline]
 mmget_not_zero include/linux/sched/mm.h:75 [inline]
 binder_update_page_range+0xece/0x18e0 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:218
 binder_alloc_new_buf_locked drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:443 [inline]
 binder_alloc_new_buf+0x467/0xc30 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:513
 binder_transaction+0x125b/0x4fb0 drivers/android/binder.c:2957
 binder_thread_write+0xc08/0x2770 drivers/android/binder.c:3528
 binder_ioctl_write_read.isra.39+0x24f/0x8e0 drivers/android/binder.c:4456
 binder_ioctl+0xa86/0xf34 drivers/android/binder.c:4596
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x154/0xd40 fs/ioctl.c:686
 ksys_ioctl+0x94/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:701
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:708 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:706 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x43/0x50 fs/ioctl.c:706
 do_syscall_64+0x167/0x4b0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
"

Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>android: binder: Rate-limit debug and userspace triggered err msgs</title>
<updated>2018-08-08T09:05:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sherry Yang</name>
<email>sherryy@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-07T19:57:13+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use rate-limited debug messages where userspace can trigger
excessive log spams.

Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg &lt;arve@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang &lt;sherryy@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>android: binder_alloc: Include asm/cacheflush.h after linux/ include files</title>
<updated>2018-07-24T12:23:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-23T21:47:23+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:1e81c57b598307c5611410fd357554ffacc6290d</id>
<content type='text'>
If asm/cacheflush.h is included first, the following build warnings are
seen with sparc32 builds.

In file included from ./arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush.h:11:0,
	from drivers/android/binder_alloc.c:20:
./arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h:40:37: warning:
	'struct page' declared inside parameter list

Moving the asm/ include after linux/ includes fixes the problem.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: kzalloc() -&gt; kcalloc()</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T23:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T21:03:40+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:6396bb221514d2876fd6dc0aa2a1f240d99b37bb</id>
<content type='text'>
The kzalloc() function has a 2-factor argument form, kcalloc(). This
patch replaces cases of:

        kzalloc(a * b, gfp)

with:
        kcalloc(a * b, gfp)

as well as handling cases of:

        kzalloc(a * b * c, gfp)

with:

        kzalloc(array3_size(a, b, c), gfp)

as it's slightly less ugly than:

        kzalloc_array(array_size(a, b), c, gfp)

This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like:

        kzalloc(4 * 1024, gfp)

though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion.

Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were
dropped, since they're redundant.

The Coccinelle script used for this was:

// Fix redundant parens around sizeof().
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING, E;
@@

(
  kzalloc(
-	(sizeof(TYPE)) * E
+	sizeof(TYPE) * E
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(sizeof(THING)) * E
+	sizeof(THING) * E
  , ...)
)

// Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens.
@@
expression COUNT;
typedef u8;
typedef __u8;
@@

(
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant.
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING;
identifier COUNT_ID;
constant COUNT_CONST;
@@

(
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID)
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID)
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product, only identifiers.
@@
identifier SIZE, COUNT;
@@

- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	SIZE * COUNT
+	COUNT, SIZE
  , ...)

// 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with
// redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING;
identifier STRIDE, COUNT;
type TYPE;
@@

(
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING1, THING2;
identifier COUNT;
type TYPE1, TYPE2;
@@

(
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed.
@@
identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT;
@@

(
  kzalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
)

// Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products,
// when they're not all constants...
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  kzalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(E1) * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(E1) * (E2) * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	(E1) * (E2) * (E3)
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kzalloc(
-	E1 * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
)

// And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants,
// keeping sizeof() as the second factor argument.
@@
expression THING, E1, E2;
type TYPE;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  kzalloc(sizeof(THING) * C2, ...)
|
  kzalloc(sizeof(TYPE) * C2, ...)
|
  kzalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  kzalloc(C1 * C2, ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (E2)
+	E2, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * E2
+	E2, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (E2)
+	E2, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * E2
+	E2, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	(E1) * E2
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	(E1) * (E2)
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
|
- kzalloc
+ kcalloc
  (
-	E1 * E2
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ANDROID: binder: change down_write to down_read</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T14:06:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-07T14:15:37+00:00</published>
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binder_update_page_range needs down_write of mmap_sem because
vm_insert_page need to change vma-&gt;vm_flags to VM_MIXEDMAP unless
it is set. However, when I profile binder working, it seems
every binder buffers should be mapped in advance by binder_mmap.
It means we could set VM_MIXEDMAP in binder_mmap time which is
already hold a mmap_sem as down_write so binder_update_page_range
doesn't need to hold a mmap_sem as down_write.
Please use proper API down_read. It would help mmap_sem contention
problem as well as fixing down_write abuse.

Ganesh Mahendran tested app launching and binder throughput test
and he said he couldn't find any problem and I did binder latency
test per Greg KH request(Thanks Martijn to teach me how I can do)
I cannot find any problem, too.

Cc: Ganesh Mahendran &lt;opensource.ganesh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg &lt;arve@android.com&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area</title>
<updated>2018-01-25T09:46:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ganesh Mahendran</name>
<email>opensource.ganesh@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-10T02:49:05+00:00</published>
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VM_IOREMAP is used to access hardware through a mechanism called
I/O mapped memory. Android binder is a IPC machanism which will
not access I/O memory.

And VM_IOREMAP has alignment requiement which may not needed in
binder.
    __get_vm_area_node()
    {
    ...
        if (flags &amp; VM_IOREMAP)
            align = 1ul &lt;&lt; clamp_t(int, fls_long(size),
               PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER);
    ...
    }

This patch will save some kernel vm area, especially for 32bit os.

In 32bit OS, kernel vm area is only 240MB. We may got below
error when launching a app:

&lt;3&gt;[ 4482.440053] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15728 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12
&lt;3&gt;[ 4483.218817] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15745 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12

Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran &lt;opensource.ganesh@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;

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V3: update comments
V2: update comments
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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