Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:18:34 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "crypto: cavium/nitrox - add an error message to explain the failure of pci_request_mem_regions" |
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:49:31AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This reverts commit 9fcddaf2e28d779cb946d23838ba6d50f299aa80 as it was > submitted under a fake name and we can not knowingly accept anonymous > contributions to the repository. > > This commit was part of a submission "test" to the Linux kernel > community by some "researchers" at umn.edu. As outlined at: > https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ekjlu/papers/full-disclosure.pdf > it was done so as an attempt to submit a known-buggy patch to see if it > could get by our review. However, the submission turned out to actually > be correct, and not have a bug in it as the author did not understand > how the PCI driver model works at all, and so the submission was > accepted. > > As this change is of useless consequence, there is no loss of > functionality in reverting it. > > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> > Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> > Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > Herbert, I will be taking this as part of my larger "revert buggy patch > submissions from umn.edu" tree, so no need for you to take this in your > tree at this point in time, I just wanted to give you a heads up as to > what is happening here.
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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