| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 189/190] Revert "scsi: 3w-9xxx: fix a missing-check bug" | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:01:04 +0200 |
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This reverts commit c9318a3e0218bc9dacc25be46b9eec363259536f.
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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu> Cc: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c index b96e82de4237..4c5d4ea8a592 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c @@ -886,11 +886,6 @@ static int twa_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) unsigned int minor_number; int retval = TW_IOCTL_ERROR_OS_ENODEV; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { - retval = -EACCES; - goto out; - } - minor_number = iminor(inode); if (minor_number >= twa_device_extension_count) goto out; -- 2.31.1
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