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Commit 234ec1ce authored by Patrick Tjin's avatar Patrick Tjin Committed by Pat Tjin
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arm/configs: hammerhead: remove SysV IPC from kernel


System V IPCs are not compliant with Android's application lifecycle
because allocated resources are not freeable by the low memory killer.
This lead to global kernel resource leakage.

For example, there is no way to automatically release a SysV
semaphore allocated in the kernel when:
- a buggy or malicious process exits
- a non-buggy and non-malicious process crashes or is explicitly
  killed.

Killing processes automatically to make room for new ones is an
important part of Android's application lifecycle implementation.
This means that, even assuming only non-buggy and non-malicious
code, it is very likely that over time, the kernel global tables
used to implement SysV IPCs will fill up.

Bug: 24551430
Bug: 22300191

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick Tjin <pattjin@google.com>
Change-Id: Ibaaad7c3d99c509ec360b715323807ebe0027ab0
parent 7c1c6f25
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# CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT is not set # CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT is not set
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
# CONFIG_SWAP is not set # CONFIG_SWAP is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_AUDIT=y CONFIG_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=19 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=19
...@@ -14,7 +13,6 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y ...@@ -14,7 +13,6 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
# CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set # CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set
# CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set
# CONFIG_USER_NS is not set # CONFIG_USER_NS is not set
# CONFIG_PID_NS is not set # CONFIG_PID_NS is not set
CONFIG_RELAY=y CONFIG_RELAY=y
...@@ -59,7 +57,6 @@ CONFIG_MSM_PIL_VENUS=y ...@@ -59,7 +57,6 @@ CONFIG_MSM_PIL_VENUS=y
# CONFIG_MSM_BUSPM_DEV is not set # CONFIG_MSM_BUSPM_DEV is not set
CONFIG_MSM_TZ_LOG=y CONFIG_MSM_TZ_LOG=y
CONFIG_MSM_RPM_RBCPR_STATS_V2_LOG=y CONFIG_MSM_RPM_RBCPR_STATS_V2_LOG=y
CONFIG_MSM_RPM_STATS_LOG=y
CONFIG_MSM_DIRECT_SCLK_ACCESS=y CONFIG_MSM_DIRECT_SCLK_ACCESS=y
CONFIG_MSM_EVENT_TIMER=y CONFIG_MSM_EVENT_TIMER=y
CONFIG_MSM_BUS_SCALING=y CONFIG_MSM_BUS_SCALING=y
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