Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:52:48 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 116/190] Revert "thunderbolt: property: Fix a NULL pointer dereference" |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 06:26:23AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > This reverts commit 106204b56f60abf1bead7dceb88f2be3e34433da. > > > > 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: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > --- > > drivers/thunderbolt/property.c | 5 ----- > > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) > > The original patch looks correct. > > > Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Thanks for the review, now dropping this revert.
greg k-h
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