Re: [PATCH 047/190] Revert "rxrpc: Fix a memory leak in rxkad_verify_response()"

David Howells
2021-04-21T16:30:48Z

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> This reverts commit f45d01f4f30b53c3a0a1c6c1c154acb7ff74ab9f.
>
> 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: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This is actually a good patch, so please don't revert it.

David