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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:29:21 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ANDROID: binder: prevent transactions into own process.
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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@linuxfoundation.org> 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