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SubjectRe: [PATCH 122/190] Revert "HID: logitech: check the return value of create_singlethread_workqueue"
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> This reverts commit 6c44b15e1c9076d925d5236ddadf1318b0a25ce2.
>
> 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: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This particular one doesn't have to be reverted, I have reviewed it again
and it does fix an actual bug.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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