Re: [PATCH] binder: ipc namespace support for android binder

[Todd Kjos]

+christian@xxxxxxxxxx

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:29 PM chouryzhou(åå) <chouryzhou@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>
> > It's not obvious from this patch where this dependency comes
> > from...why is SYSVIPC required? I'd like to not have to require IPC_NS
> > either for devices.
>
> Yes, the patch is not highly dependent on SYSVIPC, but it will be convenient
> if require it. I will update it to drop dependency of it in V2 patch. This patch
> doesn't need IPC_NS set at present.

Actually it is dependent on IPC_NS since it makes changes to
ipc/namespace.c which is
compiled only if CONFIG_IPC_NS.

There are a couple more implementations similar to this one.
https://lwn.net/Articles/577957/ and some submissions to AOSP derived
from that one
that introduce a generic registration function for namespace support [1], and
changes to binder to implement namespaces [2].

If this is really needed, then we should have a solution that works
for devices without
requiring IPC_NS or SYSVIPC. Also, we should not add binder-specific code to
ipc/namespace.c or include/linux/ipc_namespace.h.

-Todd

[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/common/+/471961
[2] https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/common/+/471825