[PATCH 103/190] Revert "thunderbolt: property: Fix a missing check of kzalloc"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:08:13Z

This reverts commit 6183d5a51866f3acdeeb66b75e87d44025b01a55.

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: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/thunderbolt/property.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/property.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/property.c
index d5b0cdb8f0b1..841314deb446 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/property.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/property.c
@@ -587,12 +587,7 @@ int tb_property_add_text(struct tb_property_dir *parent, const char *key,
return -ENOMEM;

property->length = size / 4;
- property->value.text = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!property->value.text) {
- kfree(property);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
+ property->value.data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
strcpy(property->value.text, text);

list_add_tail(&property->list, &parent->properties);
--
2.31.1