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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 152/190] Revert "media: usb: gspca: add a missed check for goto_low_power"
    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > This reverts commit 5b711870bec4dc9a6d705d41e127e73944fa3650.
    >
    > 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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
    > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > ---
    > drivers/media/usb/gspca/cpia1.c | 6 +-----
    > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/cpia1.c b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/cpia1.c
    > index a4f7431486f3..d93d384286c1 100644
    > --- a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/cpia1.c
    > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/cpia1.c
    > @@ -1424,7 +1424,6 @@ static int sd_config(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev,
    > {
    > struct sd *sd = (struct sd *) gspca_dev;
    > struct cam *cam;
    > - int ret;
    >
    > sd->mainsFreq = FREQ_DEF == V4L2_CID_POWER_LINE_FREQUENCY_60HZ;
    > reset_camera_params(gspca_dev);
    > @@ -1436,10 +1435,7 @@ static int sd_config(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev,
    > cam->cam_mode = mode;
    > cam->nmodes = ARRAY_SIZE(mode);
    >
    > - ret = goto_low_power(gspca_dev);
    > - if (ret)
    > - gspca_err(gspca_dev, "Cannot go to low power mode: %d\n",
    > - ret);
    > + goto_low_power(gspca_dev);
    > /* Check the firmware version. */
    > sd->params.version.firmwareVersion = 0;
    > get_version_information(gspca_dev);
    > --
    > 2.31.1
    >

    The original commit here did nothing useful, so I am going to keep this
    revert.

    greg k-h

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