Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:53:46 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 114/190] Revert "staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference of kcalloc" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 06:55:59PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 4/21/21 2:59 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This reverts commit 7671ce0d92933762f469266daf43bd34d422d58c. > > > > 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> > > Cc: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org> > > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > FWIW the original commit seems fine here. So if that is an option please > drop this revert from the set.
Revert is now dropped, thanks for looking at it.
greg k-h
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