Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:33:12 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/14] staging: binder: Fix death notifications |
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:21:24AM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:58:29PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > >> From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> > >> > >> The change (008fa749e0fe5b2fffd20b7fe4891bb80d072c6a) that moved the > >> node release code to a separate function broke death notifications in > >> some cases. When it encountered a reference without a death > >> notification request, it would skip looking at the remaining > >> references, and therefore fail to send death notifications for them. > >> > >> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > >> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> > >> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> > >> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> > >> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> > >> --- > >> drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 3 +-- > >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > As this broke in 3.10, shouldn't this go to staging-linus and get > > backported to the stable trees too? > > Right. I rearranged this fix to be in the front of this series because > of this, and mentioned in the cover letter that it might be considered > for 3.14. If that's considered ok, then it can be pushed to stable as > well.
I never read 00/ emails because they will never show up in the kernel changelog :)
I'll go queue this up for 3.14-final and the stable trees.
thanks,
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