Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:20:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 122/190] Revert "HID: logitech: check the return value of create_singlethread_workqueue" |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 6c44b15e1c9076d925d5236ddadf1318b0a25ce2. > > 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: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This particular one doesn't have to be reverted, I have reviewed it again and it does fix an actual bug.
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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