Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: android: binder: Add some error checks

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 03:20:30PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> 2012/1/31 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:22:08AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 07:56:20PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> >> > - Add a mutex to protect against two processes mmapping the
> >> >   same binder_proc.
> >> > - After locking mmap_sem, check that the vma we want to access
> >> >   (still) points to the same mm_struct.
> >> > - Use proc->tsk instead of current to get the files struct since
> >> >   this is where we get the rlimit from.
> >>
> >> This doesn't seem related to the locking change at all.  Probably
> >> this patch should be split into three patches, one bugfix per
> >> patch, unless they are very closely related.
> >
> > I agree.  Arve, is this all fixing one problem, or multiple ones?  If
> > multiple ones, we need this split up into multiple patches.
> >
> 
> That depend on your point of view. It fixes crashes if you use the
> same binder file pointer from multiple processes. It seemed excessive
> to have three patches for this.

It would have helped you to write a better changelog.  The subject
says "[patch] android: grab bag of random fixes" and the the
description matches that.  You have no idea how annoyed I get at
grab bag patches.

Also don't ignore review comments.  I review a lot of staging
patches and I'm not an expert on every driver so my review comments
are often wrong.  I don't get upset when people tell me that.
Review is part of the process.  Everybody does it.

regards,
dan carpenter

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