Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:44:27 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 142/190] Revert "rtc: hym8563: fix a missing check of block data read" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:28:02PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > Hello, > > On 21/04/2021 15:00:17+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This reverts commit 9a20b5e35a536d6bb4b2d4a3b14a0457e205356c. > > > > 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. > > > > There is really nothing wrong in the patch, it was not completely useful > but not wrong either.
Thanks for the review, I'll drop it.
greg k-h
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