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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 099/190] Revert "omapfb: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in kmalloc"
    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:34PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > This reverts commit 31fa6e2ae65feed0de10823c5d1eea21a93086c9.
    >
    > 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
    > Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
    > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
    > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > ---
    > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c | 2 --
    > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c
    > index 0ae0cab252d3..05d87dcbdd8b 100644
    > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c
    > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c
    > @@ -100,8 +100,6 @@ static void __init omapdss_omapify_node(struct device_node *node)
    >
    > new_len = prop->length + strlen(prefix) * num_strs;
    > new_compat = kmalloc(new_len, GFP_KERNEL);
    > - if (!new_compat)
    > - return;
    >
    > omapdss_prefix_strcpy(new_compat, new_len, prop->value, prop->length);
    >
    > --
    > 2.31.1
    >

    Original looks correct, I'll drop this revert.

    greg k-h

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