Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:41:53 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] android: binder: Don't get mm from task |
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 01:11:57AM -0400, Sherry Yang wrote: > Use binder_alloc struct's mm_struct rather than getting > a reference to the mm struct through get_task_mm to > avoid a potential deadlock between lru lock, task lock and > dentry lock, since a thread can be holding the task lock > and the dentry lock while trying to acquire the lru lock. > > Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> > Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com> > --- > drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 22 +++++++++------------- > drivers/android/binder_alloc.h | 1 - > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
This seems to be needed for 4.14-final, so can you refresh it against my char-misc-linus branch and resend it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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