On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 07:13:44PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote: > The type defined for the BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS ioctl was changed from > size_t to __u32 in order to avoid incompatibility issues between 32 and > 64-bit kernels. However, the internal types used to copy from user and > store the value were never updated. Use u32 to fix the inconsistency. > > Fixes: a9350fc859ae ("staging: android: binder: fix BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS declaration") > Reported-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/android/binder.c | 2 +- > drivers/android/binder_internal.h | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Why does only patch 4/4 need to go into the tree now, and as a stable backport, but the first 3 do not? Shouldn't this be two different series of patches, one 3 long, and one 1 long, to go to the different branches (next and linus)? thanks, greg k-h