Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:17:25 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 123/190] Revert "netfilter: ip6t_srh: fix NULL pointer dereferences" |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:26:15PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:58PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This reverts commit 6d65561f3d5ec933151939c543d006b79044e7a6. > > > > 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. > > This patch looks correct, no need to revert.
Wonderful, thanks for the review.
> If you still prefer to revert it, no problem, I'll recover this fix > via the netfilter tree later on.
Nah, I'm dropping anything that reviewers point out is "ok" from this patch series.
thanks again,
greg k-h
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