Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:01:58 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 164/190] Revert "iio: ad9523: fix a missing check of return value" |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:35:05AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:39 +0200 > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > This reverts commit ae0b3773721f08526c850e2d8dec85bdb870cd12. > > > > 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: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Checked. Original fix was correct. As with others I don't mind how we handle > this. Can either drop the revert, or bring it back later.
I'll drop the revert now, thanks for the review!
greg k-h
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