Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:53:24 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 105/190] Revert "libnvdimm/btt: Fix a kmemdup failure check" |
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:49:39PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > This reverts commit 486fa92df4707b5df58d6508728bdb9321a59766. > > > > 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> > > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Upon re-review, this fix still looks good to me, revert is not necessary.
Thanks for the review, I'll drop the revert.
greg k-h
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