linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] binder: fix log spam for existing debugfs file creation.

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:22:49 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Martin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@...wbird.group>
Cc:     Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binder: fix log spam for existing debugfs file creation.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 04:44:01PM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> Since commit 43e23b6c0b01 ("debugfs: log errors when something goes wrong")
> debugfs logs attempts to create existing files.
> 
> However binder attempts to create multiple debugfs files with
> the same name when a single PID has multiple contexts, this leads
> to log spamming during an Android boot (17 such messages during
> boot on my system).
> 
> Fix this by checking if we already know the PID and only create
> the debugfs entry for the first context per PID.
> 
> Do the same thing for binderfs for symmetry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@...wbird.group>

Does this need a "Fixes:" and cc: stable tag?

And it would be good to get a review from the binder maintainer(s) to
see if this is sane or not...

thanks,

greg k-h