[PATCH 129/190] Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:10:27Z

This reverts commit 5bf7295fe34a5251b1d241b9736af4697b590670.

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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
index d8a3ecaed3fc..985cf8cb2ec0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
@@ -1047,8 +1047,6 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode)

for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NUM_ILB_PKT; i++) {
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
- if (!skb)
- break;
qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(skb->data, adapter->mac_addr);
skb_put(skb, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
adapter->ahw->diag_cnt = 0;
--
2.31.1