| From | Bartosz Golaszewski <> | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:53:44 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 111/190] Revert "gpio: aspeed: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference" |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:07 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > This reverts commit 6cf4511e9729c00a7306cf94085f9cc3c52ee723. > > 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: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> > Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c > index b966f5e28ebf..91d0fdf8469d 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c > @@ -1231,8 +1231,6 @@ static int __init aspeed_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > > gpio->offset_timer = > devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, gpio->chip.ngpio, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!gpio->offset_timer) > - return -ENOMEM; > > rc = devm_gpiochip_add_data(&pdev->dev, &gpio->chip, gpio); > if (rc < 0) > -- > 2.31.1 >
Hi Greg,
I'm sorry you need to waste your time on this cr*p.
This patch wasn't wrong though, so I'd recommend it's left in the tree.
Best regards, Bartosz Golaszewski
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