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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Martin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
	"Martijn Coenen" <maco@android.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	"Christian Brauner" <christian@brauner.io>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binder: fix log spam for existing debugfs file creation.
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:22:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114152249.GA2041689@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1578671054-5982-1-git-send-email-martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group>

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@flowbird.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

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-10 15:44 [PATCH] binder: fix log spam for existing debugfs file creation Martin Fuzzey
2020-01-14 15:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-01-17 22:30   ` Todd Kjos

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