Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:02:42 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 093/190] Revert "iio: hmc5843: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences" |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:59:28 +0200 > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > This reverts commit 536cc27deade8f1ec3c1beefa60d5fbe0f6fcb28. > > > > 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> > Hi Greg, > > Checked this one. As far as I can tell it was a valid cleanup of > error handling. Far from critical though and unlikely to be seen in practice. > > So either leave it in place, or we can bring it back later. I don't mind > which.
Now dropped, thanks.
greg k-h
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