Re: [PATCH RESEND] binder: handle PID namespace conversion for freeze operation
From: Alice Ryhl
Date: Thu Jan 15 2026 - 03:41:45 EST
On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:06:19PM +0900, jongan.kim@xxxxxxx wrote:
> As Alice mentioned, since only the freeze operation takes a pid as input, it
> receives the local pid of the namespace. This patch converts this pid to the
> global pid of the init namespace for matching pid of binder_procs properly.
> (binder_procs has `task->group_leader->pid`). Are there any concerns or
> problems for this logic?
This isn't new with your changes ... but it does have a race where the
target process dies and gets replaced by a new process with the same pid
just before you invoke the freeze ioctl.
Alice