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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 144/190] Revert "misc/ics932s401: Add a missing check to i2c_smbus_read_word_data"
    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:19PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > This reverts commit b05ae01fdb8966afff5b153e7a7ee24684745e2d.
    >
    > 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > ---
    > drivers/misc/ics932s401.c | 2 --
    > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
    > index 2bdf560ee681..733e5c2b57ce 100644
    > --- a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
    > +++ b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
    > @@ -133,8 +133,6 @@ static struct ics932s401_data *ics932s401_update_device(struct device *dev)
    > */
    > for (i = 0; i < NUM_MIRRORED_REGS; i++) {
    > temp = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(client, regs_to_copy[i]);
    > - if (temp < 0)
    > - data->regs[regs_to_copy[i]] = 0;
    > data->regs[regs_to_copy[i]] = temp >> 8;
    > }
    >
    > --
    > 2.31.1
    >

    While ackward, the original looks good enough for now, so I'll drop this
    revert.

    greg k-h

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