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Commit a4230420 authored by Carlos Llamas's avatar Carlos Llamas Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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binder: signal epoll threads of self-work

commit 97830f3c upstream.

In (e)poll mode, threads often depend on I/O events to determine when
data is ready for consumption. Within binder, a thread may initiate a
command via BINDER_WRITE_READ without a read buffer and then make use
of epoll_wait() or similar to consume any responses afterwards.

It is then crucial that epoll threads are signaled via wakeup when they
queue their own work. Otherwise, they risk waiting indefinitely for an
event leaving their work unhandled. What is worse, subsequent commands
won't trigger a wakeup either as the thread has pending work.

Fixes: 457b9a6f

 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Steven Moreland <smoreland@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: default avatarCarlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131215347.1808751-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 6d11240d
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