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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 108/190] Revert "usb: u132-hcd: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"
    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > This reverts commit 3de3dbe7c13210171ba8411e36b409a2c29c7415.
    >
    > 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > ---
    > drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c | 2 --
    > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
    > index eb96e1e15b71..2b7bcbe2df4b 100644
    > --- a/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
    > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
    > @@ -3195,8 +3195,6 @@ static int __init u132_hcd_init(void)
    > return -ENODEV;
    > printk(KERN_INFO "driver %s\n", hcd_name);
    > workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("u132");
    > - if (!workqueue)
    > - return -ENOMEM;
    > retval = platform_driver_register(&u132_platform_driver);
    > if (retval)
    > destroy_workqueue(workqueue);
    > --
    > 2.31.1
    >

    This commit was correct, will drop this.

    greg k-h

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