linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ANDROID: binder: call poll

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Message-ID: <20171009123706.GA23581@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2017 14:37:06 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>
Cc:     john.stultz@...aro.org, tkjos@...gle.com, arve@...roid.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, malchev@...gle.com, maco@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ANDROID: binder: call poll_wait() unconditionally.

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 02:26:56PM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> Because we're not guaranteed that subsequent calls
> to poll() will have a poll_table_struct parameter
> with _qproc set. When _qproc is not set, poll_wait()
> is a noop, and we won't be woken up correctly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>
> ---
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 11 +----------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

Does this need to get into 4.14-final, or is 4.15-rc1 ok?  I'm a bit
lost as to which patches I applied to what tree...

thanks,

greg "drowning in trees" k-h