On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 09:56:50AM -0800, Todd Kjos wrote:
> proc->files cleanup is initiated by binder_vma_close. Therefore
> a reference on the binder_proc is not enough to prevent the
> files_struct from being released while the binder_proc still has
> a reference. This can lead to an attempt to dereference the
> stale pointer obtained from proc->files prior to proc->files
> cleanup. This has been seen once in task_get_unused_fd_flags()
> when __alloc_fd() is called with a stale "files".
> 
> The fix is to always use get_files_struct() to obtain struct_files
> so that the refcount on the files_struct is used to prevent
> a premature free. proc->files is removed since we get it every
> time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tk...@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 63 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

For a v2 patch (or v3 or whatever), you need to put below the --- line
what changed from the previous version(s).
Documentation/SubmittingPatches describes this pretty well :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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