Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752355AbaBRTV0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:21:26 -0500 Received: from mail-ve0-f174.google.com ([209.85.128.174]:46613 "EHLO mail-ve0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbaBRTVZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:21:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140218190245.GA27455@kroah.com> References: <1392674322-9036-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1392674322-9036-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <20140218190245.GA27455@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:21:24 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] staging: binder: Fix death notifications From: John Stultz To: Greg KH Cc: LKML , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arve_Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , Colin Cross , Android Kernel Team Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:58:29PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: >> From: Arve Hj?nnev?g >> >> 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 >> Cc: Colin Cross >> Cc: Arve Hj?nnev?g >> Cc: Android Kernel Team >> Signed-off-by: Arve Hj?nnev?g >> Signed-off-by: John Stultz >> --- >> 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. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/