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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 07:46:08 -0600
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@...gle.com>,
Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
"open list\:ANDROID DRIVERS" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: binderfs interferes with syzkaller?
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 09:55:35AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 06:49:49PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> > Hi binder maintainers,
>> >
>> > It seems that something has happened and now syzbot has 0 coverage in
>> > drivers/android/binder.c:
>> > https://storage.googleapis.com/syzkaller/cover/ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root.html
>> > It covered at least something there before as it found some bugs in binder code.
>> > I _suspect_ it may be related to introduction binderfs, but it's
>> > purely based on the fact that binderfs changed lots of things there.
>> > And I see it claims to be backward compatible.
>>
>> It is backwards compatible if you mount binderfs, right?
>
> Yes, it is backwards compatible. The devices that would usually be
> created in devtmpfs are now created in binderfs. The core
> binder-codepaths are the same.
Any chance you can add code to the binderfs case to automatically
create the symlinks to the standard mount location in devtmpfs?
That way existing userspace might not need to care how the kernel is
configured.
Eric
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