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SubjectRe: [PATCH 184/190] Revert "yam: fix a missing-check bug"
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:59PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 0781168e23a2fc8dceb989f11fc5b39b3ccacc35.
>
> 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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
> index 5ab53e9942f3..616db3a0d2f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
> @@ -951,8 +951,6 @@ static int yam_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
> sizeof(struct yamdrv_ioctl_mcs));
> if (IS_ERR(ym))
> return PTR_ERR(ym);
> - if (ym->cmd != SIOCYAMSMCS)
> - return -EINVAL;
> if (ym->bitrate > YAM_MAXBITRATE) {
> kfree(ym);
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -968,8 +966,6 @@ static int yam_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
> if (copy_from_user(&yi, ifr->ifr_data, sizeof(struct yamdrv_ioctl_cfg)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> - if (yi.cmd != SIOCYAMSCFG)
> - return -EINVAL;
> if ((yi.cfg.mask & YAM_IOBASE) && netif_running(dev))
> return -EINVAL; /* Cannot change this parameter when up */
> if ((yi.cfg.mask & YAM_IRQ) && netif_running(dev))
> --
> 2.31.1
>

Original looks correct, dropping this revert.

greg k-h

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