On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 06:10:05PM -0700, Tiffany Yang wrote:
Store a pointer to the free pages list that the binder allocator should use for a process inside of struct binder_alloc. This change allows binder allocator code to be tested and debugged deterministically while a system is using binder; i.e., without interfering with other binder processes and independently of the shrinker. This is necessary to convert the current binder_alloc_selftest into a kunit test that does not rely on hijacking an existing binder_proc to run.
A binder process's binder_alloc->freelist should not be changed after it is initialized. A sole exception is the process that runs the existing binder_alloc selftest. Its freelist can be temporarily replaced for the duration of the test because it runs as a single thread before any pages can be added to the global binder freelist, and the test frees every page it allocates before dropping the binder_selftest_lock. This exception allows the existing selftest to be used to check for regressions, but it will be dropped when the binder_alloc tests are converted to kunit in a subsequent patch in this series.
Acked-by: Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Tiffany Yang ynaffit@google.com
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook kees@kernel.org