diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPass.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPass.php
index a1ed422f73..12be3d915f 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPass.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPass.php
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ class AutowireExceptionPass implements CompilerPassInterface
 
         // was the service inlined? Of so, does its parent service exist?
         if (isset($inlinedIds[$serviceId])) {
-            return $this->doesServiceExistInTheContainer($inlinedIds[$serviceId], $container, $inlinedIds);
+            foreach ($inlinedIds[$serviceId] as $parentId) {
+                if ($this->doesServiceExistInTheContainer($parentId, $container, $inlinedIds)) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         return false;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPass.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPass.php
index a2eb511c64..7a5da70d09 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPass.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPass.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class InlineServiceDefinitionsPass extends AbstractRecursivePass implements Repe
     /**
      * Returns an array of all services inlined by this pass.
      *
-     * The key is the inlined service id and its value is the service it was inlined into.
+     * The key is the inlined service id and its value is the list of services it was inlined into.
      *
      * @return array
      */
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class InlineServiceDefinitionsPass extends AbstractRecursivePass implements Repe
 
             if ($this->isInlineableDefinition($id, $definition, $this->container->getCompiler()->getServiceReferenceGraph())) {
                 $this->container->log($this, sprintf('Inlined service "%s" to "%s".', $id, $this->currentId));
-                $this->inlinedServiceIds[$id] = $this->currentId;
+                $this->inlinedServiceIds[$id][] = $this->currentId;
 
                 if ($definition->isShared()) {
                     return $definition;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPassTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPassTest.php
index 8cd03f578a..4f0b3d6c25 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPassTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/AutowireExceptionPassTest.php
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ class AutowireExceptionPassTest extends TestCase
             ->method('getInlinedServiceIds')
             ->will($this->returnValue(array(
                 // a_service inlined into b_service
-                'a_service' => 'b_service',
+                'a_service' => array('b_service'),
                 // b_service inlined into c_service
-                'b_service' => 'c_service',
+                'b_service' => array('c_service'),
             )));
 
         $container = new ContainerBuilder();
@@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ class AutowireExceptionPassTest extends TestCase
             ->method('getInlinedServiceIds')
             ->will($this->returnValue(array(
                 // a_service inlined into b_service
-                'a_service' => 'b_service',
+                'a_service' => array('b_service'),
                 // b_service inlined into c_service
-                'b_service' => 'c_service',
+                'b_service' => array('c_service'),
             )));
 
         // do NOT register c_service in the container
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPassTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPassTest.php
index 0eaea411f1..f0dd7fe74d 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPassTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Compiler/InlineServiceDefinitionsPassTest.php
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ class InlineServiceDefinitionsPassTest extends TestCase
         $repeatedPass = new RepeatedPass(array(new AnalyzeServiceReferencesPass(), $inlinePass));
         $repeatedPass->process($container);
 
-        $this->assertEquals(array('inlinable.service' => 'other_service'), $inlinePass->getInlinedServiceIds());
+        $this->assertEquals(array('inlinable.service' => array('other_service')), $inlinePass->getInlinedServiceIds());
     }
 
     protected function process(ContainerBuilder $container)