From 0845d0245e09548110cacb0f20e9934753388aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Agopian <mathias@google.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:28:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ugly, temporary, workaroung for a problem where a binder
 thread spins forever

Bug: 7289992
Change-Id: I0c3d482a1af57e5f444be2ba7f2751ac3e954af2
---
 libs/binder/IPCThreadState.cpp | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libs/binder/IPCThreadState.cpp b/libs/binder/IPCThreadState.cpp
index 6e83faab7..03c10828d 100644
--- a/libs/binder/IPCThreadState.cpp
+++ b/libs/binder/IPCThreadState.cpp
@@ -482,6 +482,18 @@ void IPCThreadState::joinThreadPool(bool isMain)
         if(result == TIMED_OUT && !isMain) {
             break;
         }
+
+        // HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK
+        // FIXME: we sometimes get unexplained EINVAL which causes this
+        // thread to spin forever. TEMPORARILY allow it to exit.
+        // We should probably assert on eng builds
+        if(result == -EINVAL && !isMain) {
+            ALOGE("**** THREAD %p (PID %d) ERROR (%d) LEAVING THE THREAD POOL\n",
+                (void*)pthread_self(), getpid(), result);
+            break;
+        }
+        // HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK
+
     } while (result != -ECONNREFUSED && result != -EBADF);
 
     LOG_THREADPOOL("**** THREAD %p (PID %d) IS LEAVING THE THREAD POOL err=%p\n",