Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:39:29 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 034/190] Revert "efi/esrt: Fix reference count leak in esre_create_sysfs_entry." |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:58:29PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This reverts commit 4ddf4739be6e375116c375f0a68bf3893ffcee21. > > 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: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu> > Cc: https > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c > index d5915272141f..e3d692696583 100644 > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c > @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int esre_create_sysfs_entry(void *esre, int entry_num) > rc = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &esre1_ktype, NULL, > "entry%d", entry_num); > if (rc) { > - kobject_put(&entry->kobj); > + kfree(entry); > return rc; > } > } > -- > 2.31.1 >
Looks correct so I'm dropping the revert.
greg k-h
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