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![]() As discussed at Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 in Vancouver [1] this is the implementation of binderfs. /* Abstract */ binderfs is a backwards-compatible filesystem for Android's binder ipc mechanism. Each ipc namespace will mount a new binderfs instance. Mounting binderfs multiple times at different locations in the same ipc namespace will not cause a new super block to be allocated and hence it will be the same filesystem instance. Each new binderfs mount will have its own set of binder devices only visible in the ipc namespace it has been mounted in. All devices in a new binderfs mount will follow the scheme binder%d and numbering will always start at 0. /* Backwards compatibility */ Devices requested in the Kconfig via CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES for the initial ipc namespace will work as before. They will be registered via misc_register() and appear in the devtmpfs mount. Specifically, the standard devices binder, hwbinder, and vndbinder will all appear in their standard locations in /dev. Mounting or unmounting the binderfs mount in the initial ipc namespace will have no effect on these devices, i.e. they will neither show up in the binderfs mount nor will they disappear when the binderfs mount is gone. /* binder-control */ Each new binderfs instance comes with a binder-control device. No other devices will be present at first. The binder-control device can be used to dynamically allocate binder devices. All requests operate on the binderfs mount the binder-control device resides in. Assuming a new instance of binderfs has been mounted at /dev/binderfs via mount -t binderfs binderfs /dev/binderfs. Then a request to create a new binder device can be made as illustrated in [2]. Binderfs devices can simply be removed via unlink(). /* Implementation details */ - dynamic major number allocation: When binderfs is registered as a new filesystem it will dynamically allocate a new major number. The allocated major number will be returned in struct binderfs_device when a new binder device is allocated. - global minor number tracking: Minor are tracked in a global idr struct that is capped at BINDERFS_MAX_MINOR. The minor number tracker is protected by a global mutex. This is the only point of contention between binderfs mounts. - struct binderfs_info: Each binderfs super block has its own struct binderfs_info that tracks specific details about a binderfs instance: - ipc namespace - dentry of the binder-control device - root uid and root gid of the user namespace the binderfs instance was mounted in - mountable by user namespace root: binderfs can be mounted by user namespace root in a non-initial user namespace. The devices will be owned by user namespace root. - binderfs binder devices without misc infrastructure: New binder devices associated with a binderfs mount do not use the full misc_register() infrastructure. The misc_register() infrastructure can only create new devices in the host's devtmpfs mount. binderfs does however only make devices appear under its own mountpoint and thus allocates new character device nodes from the inode of the root dentry of the super block. This will have the side-effect that binderfs specific device nodes do not appear in sysfs. This behavior is similar to devpts allocated pts devices and has no effect on the functionality of the ipc mechanism itself. [1]: https://goo.gl/JL2tfX [2]: program to allocate a new binderfs binder device: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <linux/android/binder_ctl.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd, ret, saved_errno; size_t len; struct binderfs_device device = { 0 }; if (argc < 2) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); len = strlen(argv[1]); if (len > BINDERFS_MAX_NAME) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); memcpy(device.name, argv[1], len); fd = open("/dev/binderfs/binder-control", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd < 0) { printf("%s - Failed to open binder-control device\n", strerror(errno)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } ret = ioctl(fd, BINDER_CTL_ADD, &device); saved_errno = errno; close(fd); errno = saved_errno; if (ret < 0) { printf("%s - Failed to allocate new binder device\n", strerror(errno)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("Allocated new binder device with major %d, minor %d, and " "name %s\n", device.major, device.minor, device.name); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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binder.c | ||
binder_alloc.c | ||
binder_alloc.h | ||
binder_alloc_selftest.c | ||
binder_internal.h | ||
binder_trace.h | ||
binderfs.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
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