Re: [PATCH 119/190] Revert "tty: mxs-auart: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-26T17:03:48Z

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 07:03:55AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 21. 04. 21, 14:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 6734330654dac550f12e932996b868c6d0dcb421.
> >
> > 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: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c | 4 ----
> > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> > index f414d6acad69..edad6ebbdfd5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> > @@ -1644,10 +1644,6 @@ static int mxs_auart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > s->port.mapbase = r->start;
> > s->port.membase = ioremap(r->start, resource_size(r));
> > - if (!s->port.membase) {
> > - ret = -ENOMEM;
> > - goto out_disable_clks;
> > - }
>
> I don't think this needs to be reverted -- the original fix is correct.
>

Now dropped, thanks for the review!

greg k-h