This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
binder: use group leader instead of open thread
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From c4ea41ba195d01c9af66fb28711a16cc97caa9c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:01:36 -0700
Subject: binder: use group leader instead of open thread
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 <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);
--
2.13.3