Re: [PATCH v17 0/3] binder: report txn errors via generic netlink

[Alice Ryhl]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 12:10:14AM -0700, Li Li wrote:
> From: Li Li <dualli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It's a known issue that neither the frozen processes nor the system
> administration process of the OS can correctly deal with failed binder
> transactions. The reason is that there's no reliable way for the user
> space administration process to fetch the binder errors from the kernel
> binder driver.
> 
> Android is such an OS suffering from this issue. Since cgroup freezer
> was used to freeze user applications to save battery, innocent frozen
> apps have to be killed when they receive sync binder transactions or
> when their async binder buffer is running out.
> 
> This patch introduces the Linux generic netlink messages into the binder
> driver so that the Linux/Android system administration process can
> listen to important events and take corresponding actions, like stopping
> a broken app from attacking the OS by sending huge amount of spamming
> binder transactiions.

I'm a bit confused about this series. Why is [PATCH] binder: add
setup_report permission a reply to [PATCH v17 1/3] lsm, selinux: Add
setup_report permission to binder? Which patches are supposed to be
included and in which order?

Alice