Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 075/190] Revert "gma/gma500: fix a memory disclosure bug due to uninitialized bytes" | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:59:10 +0200 |
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This reverts commit 57a25a5f754ce27da2cfa6f413cfd366f878db76.
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: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: https Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_display.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_display.c index 5d3302249779..f89c2088dc2d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_display.c @@ -405,8 +405,6 @@ static bool cdv_intel_find_dp_pll(const struct gma_limit_t *limit, struct gma_crtc *gma_crtc = to_gma_crtc(crtc); struct gma_clock_t clock; - memset(&clock, 0, sizeof(clock)); - switch (refclk) { case 27000: if (target < 200000) { -- 2.31.1
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