Re: [PATCH 01/14] staging: binder: Fix death notifications

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 18 2014 - 14:01:28 EST


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:58:29PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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?

thanks,

greg k-h
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