diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/BufferLayer.cpp b/services/surfaceflinger/BufferLayer.cpp
index ade62bf..d314942 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/BufferLayer.cpp
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/BufferLayer.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
         ALOGE("Found stale hardware composer layers when destroying "
               "surface flinger layer %s",
               mName.string());
-        destroyAllHwcLayers();
+        destroyAllHwcLayersPlusChildren();
     }
 
     mTimeStats.onDestroy(getSequence());