Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2021 07:54:34 +0200 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 132/190] Revert "net: fujitsu: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference" |
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Am Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 07:40:49AM +0200 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This reverts commit 9f4d6358e11bbc7b839f9419636188e4151fb6e4. > > > > 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > --- > > drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.c | 5 ----- > > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.c > > index a7b7a4aace79..dc90c61fc827 100644 > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.c > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.c > > @@ -547,11 +547,6 @@ static int fmvj18x_get_hwinfo(struct pcmcia_device *link, u_char *node_id) > > return -1; > > > > base = ioremap(link->resource[2]->start, resource_size(link->resource[2])); > > - if (!base) { > > - pcmcia_release_window(link, link->resource[2]); > > - return -ENOMEM; > > - } > > - > > pcmcia_map_mem_page(link, link->resource[2], 0); > > > > /* > > -- > > 2.31.1 > > > > Original commit looks correct here, I'll drop the revert.
NAK. The only caller of that function checks only for "== -1" as error condition, so this error is not handled correctly. So this patch was/is obviously broken.
Thanks, Dominik
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