Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:11:05 -0300 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 028/190] Revert "RDMA/rvt: Fix potential memory leak caused by rvt_alloc_rq" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:58:23PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This reverts commit 90a239ee25fa3a483facec3de7c144361a3d3a51. > > 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: https > Cc: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> > Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/qp.c | 6 ++---- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
While I don't see anything obviously wrong here it is tricky enough that I would revert it unless Dennis says otherwise.
Jason
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