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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 178/190] Revert "net: netxen: fix a missing check and an uninitialized use"
    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:53PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > This reverts commit d134e486e831defd26130770181f01dfc6195f7d.
    >
    > 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > ---
    > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c | 3 +--
    > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
    > index 08f9477d2ee8..32b9e28dda16 100644
    > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
    > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
    > @@ -1107,8 +1107,7 @@ netxen_validate_firmware(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)
    > return -EINVAL;
    > }
    > val = nx_get_bios_version(adapter);
    > - if (netxen_rom_fast_read(adapter, NX_BIOS_VERSION_OFFSET, (int *)&bios))
    > - return -EIO;
    > + netxen_rom_fast_read(adapter, NX_BIOS_VERSION_OFFSET, (int *)&bios);
    > if ((__force u32)val != bios) {
    > dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: firmware bios is incompatible\n",
    > fw_name[fw_type]);
    > --
    > 2.31.1
    >

    This change, while messy and could be better, is semi-sane so I'll drop
    it from my series.

    thanks,

    greg k-h

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