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[SAUCY,MANTA] binder: search for receiving context pid in global namespace

Message ID 1375803357-2095-4-git-send-email-ricardo.mendoza@canonical.com
State New
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Ricardo Mendoza Aug. 6, 2013, 3:35 p.m. UTC 
If binder cannot find the receiving task in the sender's namespace it
will default to a null PID which thus breaks communication in our
container-based scenario. This patch extends binder to first look in the
senders namespace and if unsuccesfull search in the global namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Mendoza <ricardo.mendoza@canonical.com>
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 drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
index 85ed6cf..1e71e16 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
@@ -2472,6 +2472,8 @@  retry:
 			struct task_struct *sender = t->from->proc->tsk;
 			tr.sender_pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(sender,
 							current->nsproxy->pid_ns);
+			if (tr.sender_pid == 0)
+				tr.sender_pid = task_tgid_nr(sender);
 		} else {
 			tr.sender_pid = 0;
 		}