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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27T13:48:43Z

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 05:30:23PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 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.

Now dropped from my series, thanks!

greg k-h