Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:56:35 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 190/190] Revert "ethtool: fix a potential missing-check bug" |
| |
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 06:06:59AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > This reverts commit d656fe49e33df48ee6bc19e871f5862f49895c9e. > > > > 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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu> > > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > The original patch looks valid and fixes a race.
Thanks for reviewing, now dropped.
greg k-h
| |