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Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 14:02:44 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To:     Paul Lawrence <paullawrence@google.com>
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        Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>,
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        Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ashmem: Remove deadlock
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Thanks!  Somebody already sent this.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:40:30PM -0800, Paul Lawrence wrote:
> Regression introduced in commit ce8a3a9e76d0193e2e8d74a06d275b3c324ca652
> ("staging: android: ashmem: Fix a race condition in pin ioctls")
> causing deadlock.

Use the Fixes tag for this.  The format is:

Fixes: ce8a3a9e76d0 ("staging: android: ashmem: Fix a race condition in pin ioctls")

Then you only need one stable CC line.  Just the oldest kernel which
needs to be patched.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.18.x

The extra git hash after the stable CC is for if a bug requires several
patches to fix it.  In this case it only requires just this patch so
there's no need to have the hash.

Basically you did extra work which isn't required.  Anyway, this fix was
already merged so no need to resend or anything.

regards,
dan carpenter