android: Enable building binder as module
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 8 Jul 2025 11:30:55 +0000 (13:30 +0200)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:15:48 +0000 (10:15 +0100)
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/901492

We want to enable use of the Android binder driver to support
Waydroid, but it should not be built-in as that would waste resources
and increase security attack surface on systems that don't need it.

- Change the Makefiles to build the driver as an object with the
  "_linux" suffix (which is what Waydroid expects)
- Change config symbol types to tristate
- Add a module description, because modpost warns about missing
  descriptions

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name android-enable-building-binder-as-module.patch

drivers/android/Kconfig
drivers/android/Makefile
drivers/android/binder.c
drivers/android/binder_alloc.c

index 5b3b8041f8279529e5a40678cf9fff996a721f20..42f40843c32e9d3cc8cec46f116e8e1c20dc7384 100644 (file)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 menu "Android"
 
 config ANDROID_BINDER_IPC
-       bool "Android Binder IPC Driver"
+       tristate "Android Binder IPC Driver"
        depends on MMU
        default n
        help
index c5d47be0276cdbf99dabc1b1c3c0410ff2426926..ca882c1fd5adcea2770c356516b4313fcbbc2acc 100644 (file)
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 ccflags-y += -I$(src)                  # needed for trace events
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDERFS)         += binderfs.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC)       += binder.o binder_alloc.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_ALLOC_KUNIT_TEST)  += tests/
+obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC)       += binder_linux.o
+binder_linux-y := binder.o binder_alloc.o
+binder_linux-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDERFS)        += binderfs.o
+binder_linux-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_ALLOC_KUNIT_TEST) += tests/
index 5702804b92e4bfee0b7c8e8cb447349a5e9d8fbf..375b056aab0048fd4f7ba19351269e1149e8154d 100644 (file)
@@ -7081,3 +7081,4 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
 #include "binder_trace.h"
 
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Android Binder IPC Driver");
index 979c96b74cad36b1e1fbf0bba33282f9f526fff4..19dc1a17c36d2c4f61dc550c77d5f799660636c2 100644 (file)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ enum {
 };
 static uint32_t binder_alloc_debug_mask = BINDER_DEBUG_USER_ERROR;
 
-module_param_named(debug_mask, binder_alloc_debug_mask,
+module_param_named(alloc_debug_mask, binder_alloc_debug_mask,
                   uint, 0644);
 
 #define binder_alloc_debug(mask, x...) \