| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 077/190] Revert "rapidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference when create_workqueue() fails" | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:59:12 +0200 |
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This reverts commit 23015b22e47c5409620b1726a677d69e5cd032ba.
Commits from @umn.edu addresses have been found to be submitted in "bad faith" to try to test the kernel community's ability to review "known malicious" changes. The result of these submissions can be found in a paper published at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy entitled, "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits" written by Qiushi Wu (University of Minnesota) and Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota).
Because of this, all submissions from this group must be reverted from the kernel tree and will need to be re-reviewed again to determine if they actually are a valid fix. Until that work is complete, remove this change to ensure that no problems are being introduced into the codebase.
Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c index 50ec53d67a4c..e6c16f04f2b4 100644 --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c +++ b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c @@ -2138,14 +2138,6 @@ static int riocm_add_mport(struct device *dev, mutex_init(&cm->rx_lock); riocm_rx_fill(cm, RIOCM_RX_RING_SIZE); cm->rx_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/rxq"); - if (!cm->rx_wq) { - riocm_error("failed to allocate IBMBOX_%d on %s", - cmbox, mport->name); - rio_release_outb_mbox(mport, cmbox); - kfree(cm); - return -ENOMEM; - } - INIT_WORK(&cm->rx_work, rio_ibmsg_handler); cm->tx_slot = 0; -- 2.31.1
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