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Patch "staging: android: uapi: drop definitions of removed ION_IOC_{FREE,SHARE} ioctls" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: android: uapi: drop definitions of removed ION_IOC_{FREE,SHARE} ioctls

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
staging-android-uapi-drop-definitions-of-removed-ion_ioc_-free-share-ioctls.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From f7a320ffebe2bdce3a189ecb531a401c653f754f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 17:11:35 +0300
Subject: staging: android: uapi: drop definitions of removed ION_IOC_{FREE,SHARE} ioctls

From: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <[email protected]>

commit f7a320ffebe2bdce3a189ecb531a401c653f754f upstream.

This problem was found by strace ioctl list generator.

Fixes 15c6098cfec5 ("staging: android: ion: Remove ion_handle and ion_client")
Cc "Dmitry V. Levin" <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h |   18 ------------------
 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h +0 -18
@@ -131,24 +131,6 @@ struct ion_heap_query {
 				      struct ion_allocation_data)
 
 /**
- * DOC: ION_IOC_FREE - free memory
- *
- * Takes an ion_handle_data struct and frees the handle.
- */
-#define ION_IOC_FREE		_IOWR(ION_IOC_MAGIC, 1, struct ion_handle_data)
-
-/**
- * DOC: ION_IOC_SHARE - creates a file descriptor to use to share an allocation
- *
- * Takes an ion_fd_data struct with the handle field populated with a valid
- * opaque handle.  Returns the struct with the fd field set to a file
- * descriptor open in the current address space.  This file descriptor
- * can then be passed to another process.  The corresponding opaque handle can
- * be retrieved via ION_IOC_IMPORT.
- */
-#define ION_IOC_SHARE		_IOWR(ION_IOC_MAGIC, 4, struct ion_fd_data)
-
-/**
  * DOC: ION_IOC_HEAP_QUERY - information about available heaps
  *
  * Takes an ion_heap_query structure and populates information about

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/staging-android-uapi-drop-definitions-of-removed-ion_ioc_-free-share-ioctls.patch