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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 159/190] Revert "ALSA: gus: add a check of the status of snd_ctl_add"
    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 06:28:07PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
    > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:34 +0200,
    > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > >
    > > This reverts commit 0f25e000cb4398081748e54f62a902098aa79ec1.
    > >
    > > 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: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    >
    > This code change simply adds an error message print out, so it doesn't
    > actually fix anything, per se (although the code change itself is
    > fine). Feel free to revert.

    Many thanks for the reviews!

    greg k-h

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