Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 047/190] Revert "rxrpc: Fix a memory leak in rxkad_verify_response()" | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:30:23 +0100 |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> This reverts commit f45d01f4f30b53c3a0a1c6c1c154acb7ff74ab9f. > > 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: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu> > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is actually a good patch, so please don't revert it.
David
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