Re: Please add patch "staging: android: ion: Set the length of the DMA sg entries in buffer" to 4.1 and 4.4 stable kernel

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:30:48AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> Hi stable team,
> 
> This is the first time I request to add a patch that is already on
> upstream to stable kernel.  I'm not sure if this is the correct
> procedure, but I'm following option 2 in stable_kernel_rules.txt to
> request add the following patch to 4.1 and 4.4 stable kernel.
> 
> commit 70bc916b2c80913753fb188d4daee50a64d21ba0 upstream.
> 
> We are seeing a problem on an ARM64 platform running Android 4.4 + Linux
> 4.1.  A sanity check in GPU driver detects that the scatterlist
> created by ION driver does not have a valid dma_length, and hence
> refuses to work.  And the requested patch fixes our problem.

Now applied to 4.4 and 4.5-stable trees, thanks.

greg k-h
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