Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:44:52 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read" |
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 03:08:10PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This reverts commit 248b57015f35c94d4eae2fdd8c6febf5cd703900. > > 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 submitted to 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) but later > withdrawn. > > 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: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 4 +--- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c > index fc433e63b1dc..5036d7d5f3d4 100644 > --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c > +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c > @@ -305,9 +305,7 @@ static int lp5523_init_program_engine(struct lp55xx_chip *chip) > > /* Let the programs run for couple of ms and check the engine status */ > usleep_range(3000, 6000); > - ret = lp55xx_read(chip, LP5523_REG_STATUS, &status); > - if (ret) > - return ret; > + lp55xx_read(chip, LP5523_REG_STATUS, &status); > status &= LP5523_ENG_STATUS_MASK; > > if (status != LP5523_ENG_STATUS_MASK) { > -- > 2.31.1 >
This looks incorrect to me as lp5523_run_engine() has been called and not cleaned up from properly.
I'll keep the revert and fix this up correctly.
thanks,
greg k-h
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