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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:05:01 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: arve@android.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 36/37] binder: fix death race conditions
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:02:10PM -0700, Todd Kjos wrote:
> From: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
> 
> A race existed where one thread could register
> a death notification for a node, while another
> thread was cleaning up that node and sending
> out death notifications for its references,
> causing simultaneous access to ref->death
> because different locks were held.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>

Note, if you forward on a patch from someone else, like this, you should
also put your signed-off-by: on it, as you hopefully are agreeing that
it is ok to forward on.

thanks,

greg k-h