Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:00:39 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 097/190] Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 09:13:29PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 8:05 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > This reverts commit 1d84353d205a953e2381044953b7fa31c8c9702d. > > > > 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> > > Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> > > Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> > > Sigh, get_maintainers.pl likes to punish people for treewide clean-ups... > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > --- > > drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c | 5 ----- > > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c > > index 3ac053b88495..e04411701ec8 100644 > > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c > > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c > > @@ -1512,11 +1512,6 @@ static int imsttfb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) > > info->fix.smem_start = addr; > > info->screen_base = (__u8 *)ioremap(addr, par->ramdac == IBM ? > > 0x400000 : 0x800000); > > - if (!info->screen_base) { > > - release_mem_region(addr, size); > > - framebuffer_release(info); > > - return -ENOMEM; > > - } > > The original change appears to be valid, but incomplete... > > > info->fix.mmio_start = addr + 0x800000; > > par->dc_regs = ioremap(addr + 0x800000, 0x1000); > > ...because what about cleanup when this ioremap fails. > > > par->cmap_regs_phys = addr + 0x840000; > > Then again, if anyone really cared about this driver and h/w (a > PowerMac era PCI display card), it would not still be using fbdev and > would use devm_* apis.
Thanks for the review, I've updated the changelog to reflect this mess :)
greg k-h
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