| Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:59:00 +0200 | From | David Sterba <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 106/190] Revert "tty: ipwireless: fix missing checks for ioremap" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This reverts commit 1bbb1c318cd8a3a39e8c3e2e83d5e90542d6c3e3. > > 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.
I've reviewed the patch at the time and now again with fresh eyes, but it's IMO a valid fix that would have to be done the same way after revert.
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