[PATCH 189/190] Revert "scsi: 3w-9xxx: fix a missing-check bug"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:19:28Z

This reverts commit c9318a3e0218bc9dacc25be46b9eec363259536f.

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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Cc: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
index b96e82de4237..4c5d4ea8a592 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
@@ -886,11 +886,6 @@ static int twa_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
unsigned int minor_number;
int retval = TW_IOCTL_ERROR_OS_ENODEV;

- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
- retval = -EACCES;
- goto out;
- }
-
minor_number = iminor(inode);
if (minor_number >= twa_device_extension_count)
goto out;
--
2.31.1