Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 104/190] Revert "char: hpet: fix a missing check of ioremap" | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:59:39 +0200 |
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This reverts commit 13bd14a41ce3105d5b1f3cd8b4d1e249d17b6d9b.
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/char/hpet.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c index ed3b7dab678d..6f13def6c172 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c +++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c @@ -969,8 +969,6 @@ static acpi_status hpet_resources(struct acpi_resource *res, void *data) if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) { hdp->hd_phys_address = addr.address.minimum; hdp->hd_address = ioremap(addr.address.minimum, addr.address.address_length); - if (!hdp->hd_address) - return AE_ERROR; if (hpet_is_known(hdp)) { iounmap(hdp->hd_address); -- 2.31.1
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