Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:26:15 +0200 | From | Pablo Neira Ayuso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 123/190] Revert "netfilter: ip6t_srh: fix NULL pointer dereferences" |
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Hi Greg,
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:58PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This reverts commit 6d65561f3d5ec933151939c543d006b79044e7a6. > > 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.
This patch looks correct, no need to revert.
If you still prefer to revert it, no problem, I'll recover this fix via the netfilter tree later on.
Thanks.
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