On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:48:51AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 02:44:16PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > From: Tobias Lindskog <tobias.lindskog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > When ashmem_shrink is called from direct reclaim on a user thread, a > > call to do_fallocate will check for permissions against the security > > policy of that user thread. It can thus fail by chance if called on a > > thread that isn't permitted to modify the relevant ashmem areas. > > > > Because we know that we have a shmem file underneath, call the shmem > > implementation of fallocate directly instead of going through the > > user-space interface for fallocate. > > > > Bug: 21951515 > > What does this "Bug:" line mean to any of us? :) Yeah I should have been more careful when sending Tobias's patch ;-) > I'll go delete it, and I fixed up the subject to have 'staging: android' > in it as well. Please do that next time. Sure will do, thanks for fixing it up this time. Sorry about that. Regards, -Joel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
