Re: [PATCH] rust_binder: do not query current thread for all ioctls
Carlos Llamas <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:24:43 +0000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 12:28:59PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote: > The get_current_thread() method is currently called for every ioctl to > ensure that a Thread struct exists for the thread calling into the > driver. However, not all ioctls require a Thread object, so this means > we are unnecessarily creating these objects in cases where we don't need > to. If said thread does not invoke BINDER_THREAD_EXIT on exit, Binder's > Thread struct stays around until the fd is closed. For long-lived > processes the Thread object is effectively leaked. > > Furthermore, when the BINDER_GET_NODE_DEBUG_INFO ioctl is invoked by > libmemunreachable to ensure that objects reachable only through the > Binder driver are not considered leaked, this is done from a fork of the > process owning the fd, which means that it fails the group_leader check > inside get_current_thread(). This results in EINVAL errors for this > ioctl, causing libmemunreachable to report a false positive memory leak. > > Thus, do not invoke get_current_thread() for ioctls that do not require > it. > > Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <[email protected]> > --- LGTM, Acked-by: Carlos Llamas <[email protected]>