Re: [PATCH 010/190] Revert "media: camss: Fix a reference count leak."

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27T13:04:30Z

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 05:43:45PM +0200, Robert Foss wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for taking for preventing this type of abuse.
>
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 15:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit d0675b67b42eb4f1a840d1513b5b00f78312f833.
> >
> > 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: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
>
> I think this patch is good, NAK.

I'll drop this from the series, thank you for the review.

greg k-h