Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:43:41 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 074/190] Revert "drm/gma500: fix memory disclosures due to uninitialized bytes" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 07:51:49PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:06 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > This reverts commit ec3b7b6eb8c90b52f61adff11b6db7a8db34de19. > > > > 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: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > > Cc: https > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > > gma500 is dead enough I'm not going to spend a single cycle thinking > whether this fixes anything or not and hence whether the revert is ok > or not.
Sounds good to me, I'll keep the reverts.
greg k-h
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