[PATCH 034/190] Revert "efi/esrt: Fix reference count leak in esre_create_sysfs_entry."

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:05:22Z

This reverts commit 4ddf4739be6e375116c375f0a68bf3893ffcee21.

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: https
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
index d5915272141f..e3d692696583 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int esre_create_sysfs_entry(void *esre, int entry_num)
rc = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &esre1_ktype, NULL,
"entry%d", entry_num);
if (rc) {
- kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
+ kfree(entry);
return rc;
}
}
--
2.31.1