Clear the Parcel before writing an exception during a transaction

This prevents any object data from being accidentally overwritten by the
exception, which could cause unexpected malformed objects to be sent
across the transaction.

Test: atest CtsOsTestCases:ParcelTest#testExceptionOverwritesObject
Bug: 34175893
Change-Id: Iaf80a0ad711762992b8ae60f76d861c97a403013
Merged-In: Iaf80a0ad711762992b8ae60f76d861c97a403013

diff --git a/core/java/android/os/Binder.java b/core/java/android/os/Binder.java
index ea8ba2f..b9597ea 100644 (file)
--- a/core/java/android/os/Binder.java
+++ b/core/java/android/os/Binder.java
@@ -574,6 +574,8 @@ public class Binder implements IBinder {
                     Log.w(TAG, "Caught a RuntimeException from the binder stub implementation.", e);
                 }
             } else {
+                // Clear the parcel before writing the exception
+                reply.setDataSize(0);
                 reply.setDataPosition(0);
                 reply.writeException(e);
             }