Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:09:39 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 087/190] Revert "udf: fix an uninitialized read bug and remove dead code" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:55:33PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 21-04-21 14:59:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This reverts commit 39416c5872db69859e867fa250b9cbb3f1e0d185. > > > > 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: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Hi Greg! > > I'm pretty confident this particular report & fix was valid (in fact it was > me who suggested the particular change). So I don't see point in reverting > it...
Thanks for letting me know, now dropped.
greg k-h
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