From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755649AbdGXVzM (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:55:12 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f178.google.com ([209.85.220.178]:34641 "EHLO mail-qk0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754376AbdGXVxR (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:53:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170724212349.GA22273@kroah.com> References: <20170629190211.16927-1-tkjos@google.com> <20170629190211.16927-3-tkjos@google.com> <20170724212349.GA22273@kroah.com> From: John Stultz Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:53:16 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/37] binder: use group leader instead of open thread To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Todd Kjos , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , =?UTF-8?B?QXJ2ZSBIasO4bm5ldsOlZw==?= , Martijn Coenen , Todd Kjos Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:00:45PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Todd Kjos wrote: >> > The binder allocator assumes that the thread that >> > called binder_open will never die for the lifetime of >> > that proc. That thread is normally the group_leader, >> > however it may not be. Use the group_leader instead >> > of current. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos >> > --- >> > drivers/android/binder.c | 4 ++-- >> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c >> > index 157bd3e49ff4..9393924ae8e8 100644 >> > --- a/drivers/android/binder.c >> > +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c >> > @@ -3460,8 +3460,8 @@ static int binder_open(struct inode *nodp, struct file *filp) >> > proc = kzalloc(sizeof(*proc), GFP_KERNEL); >> > if (proc == NULL) >> > return -ENOMEM; >> > - get_task_struct(current); >> > - proc->tsk = current; >> > + get_task_struct(current->group_leader); >> > + proc->tsk = current->group_leader; >> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&proc->todo); >> > init_waitqueue_head(&proc->wait); >> > proc->default_priority = task_nice(current); >> > -- >> >> So this patch landed in 4.13-rc2 (c4ea41ba195d), and seems to be >> causing a regression for me w/ HiKey. With it, I'm getting crashes >> with the bluetooth and wifi HALs. Reverting this patch seems to >> resolve the issue >> >> I suspect some other dependency from the original patchset is missing? > > If you use linux-next (or all of the patches in this series), does the > problem go away? I had tested awhile back the entire set from Todd, and didn't see this issue. I'll try to find some time to give -next a spin, but it might not be today. thanks -john