[PATCH 138/190] Revert "net: liquidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:16:57Z

This reverts commit fe543b2f174f34a7a751aa08b334fe6b105c4569.

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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
index 7c5af4beedc6..6fa570068648 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
@@ -1166,11 +1166,6 @@ static void send_rx_ctrl_cmd(struct lio *lio, int start_stop)
sc = (struct octeon_soft_command *)
octeon_alloc_soft_command(oct, OCTNET_CMD_SIZE,
16, 0);
- if (!sc) {
- netif_info(lio, rx_err, lio->netdev,
- "Failed to allocate octeon_soft_command\n");
- return;
- }

ncmd = (union octnet_cmd *)sc->virtdptr;

--
2.31.1