Re: [PATCH] ANDROID: binder: prevent transactions into own process.

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 28 2018 - 07:29:30 EST


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:06:54AM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Does this need to go to older kernels as well?
>
> Yes, this should apply cleanly to 4.14 as well. It won't apply to
> pre-4.14 kernels because of the fine-grained locking changes, but the
> same issue exists there and I suspect it would cause the same crash.
> Do you want me to send a separate patch for pre-4.14?

I can mark it for stable, and then when you get the "this did not apply
to this tree" email, you can send a backported patch to me so I know to
take that one then.

thanks,

greg k-h