diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index 8b485c39a08c..6a91287fe55f 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -4748,23 +4748,20 @@ static int binder_thread_release(struct binder_proc *proc,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If this thread used poll, make sure we remove the waitqueue
-	 * from any epoll data structures holding it with POLLFREE.
-	 * waitqueue_active() is safe to use here because we're holding
-	 * the inner lock.
+	 * If this thread used poll, make sure we remove the waitqueue from any
+	 * poll data structures holding it.
 	 */
-	if ((thread->looper & BINDER_LOOPER_STATE_POLL) &&
-	    waitqueue_active(&thread->wait)) {
-		wake_up_poll(&thread->wait, EPOLLHUP | POLLFREE);
-	}
+	if (thread->looper & BINDER_LOOPER_STATE_POLL)
+		wake_up_pollfree(&thread->wait);
 
 	binder_inner_proc_unlock(thread->proc);
 
 	/*
-	 * This is needed to avoid races between wake_up_poll() above and
-	 * and ep_remove_waitqueue() called for other reasons (eg the epoll file
-	 * descriptor being closed); ep_remove_waitqueue() holds an RCU read
-	 * lock, so we can be sure it's done after calling synchronize_rcu().
+	 * This is needed to avoid races between wake_up_pollfree() above and
+	 * someone else removing the last entry from the queue for other reasons
+	 * (e.g. ep_remove_wait_queue() being called due to an epoll file
+	 * descriptor being closed).  Such other users hold an RCU read lock, so
+	 * we can be sure they're done after we call synchronize_rcu().
 	 */
 	if (thread->looper & BINDER_LOOPER_STATE_POLL)
 		synchronize_rcu();