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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 114/190] Revert "staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference of kcalloc"
    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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