linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] ANDROID: binder: add RT inheritance flag to node.

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:05:23 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, john.stultz@...aro.org,
        tkjos@...gle.com, arve@...roid.com, sherryy@...roid.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, amit.pundir@...aro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        maco@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] ANDROID: binder: add RT inheritance flag to node.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> Allows a binder node to specify whether it wants to
> inherit real-time scheduling policy from a caller. This
> inheritance may not always be desirable, for example in
> cases where the binder call runs untrusted and therefore
> potentially unbounded code.

Isn't that backwards? That is, binder should enforce not inheriting
across a trust boundary, not let a node opt out voluntary.