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SubjectRe: [PATCH 046/190] Revert "net/mlx4_core: fix a memory leak bug."
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On 4/27/2021 4:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 02:18:37PM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/21/2021 3:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This reverts commit febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963.
>>>
>>> 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
>>> index f6cfec81ccc3..380e027ba5df 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
>>> @@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ void mlx4_opreq_action(struct work_struct *work)
>>> if (err) {
>>> mlx4_err(dev, "Failed to retrieve required operation: %d\n",
>>> err);
>>> - goto out;
>>> + return;
>>> }
>>> MLX4_GET(modifier, outbox, GET_OP_REQ_MODIFIER_OFFSET);
>>> MLX4_GET(token, outbox, GET_OP_REQ_TOKEN_OFFSET);
>>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
>>
>> The original commit febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963 is a bad
>> commit. Not to be re-submitted.
>
> Thanks for the review, will keep!
>
> greg k-h
>

Hi Greg,

I got confused with another error handling code in same function.

After a second look, original commit
febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963 looks fine to me.

Regards,
Tariq

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