This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Staging: android: binder: Don't call dump_stack in binder_vma_open
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
staging-android-binder-don-t-call-dump_stack-in-binder_vma_open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3c1b86f17068cf6476fb2d022b9c8b44dedea2e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:56:21 -0800
Subject: Staging: android: binder: Don't call dump_stack in binder_vma_open
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From: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
commit 3c1b86f17068cf6476fb2d022b9c8b44dedea2e5 upstream.
If user-space partially unmaps the driver, binder_vma_open
would dump the kernel stack. This is not a kernel bug however
and will be treated as if the whole area was unmapped once
binder_vma_close gets called.
Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
@@ -2741,7 +2741,6 @@ static void binder_vma_open(struct vm_ar
proc->pid, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) / SZ_1K, vma->vm_flags,
(unsigned long)pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot));
- dump_stack();
}
static void binder_vma_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from [email protected]
are
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/staging-android-binder-fix-crashes-when-sharing-a-binder-file-between-processes.patch
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/staging-android-binder-don-t-call-dump_stack-in-binder_vma_open.patch
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