Re: [PATCH 118/190] Revert "scsi: ufs: fix a missing check of devm_reset_control_get"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27T16:42:46Z

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:53PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 63a06181d7ce169d09843645c50fea1901bc9f0a.
>
> 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: Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-hisi.c | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-hisi.c b/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-hisi.c
> index 0aa58131e791..7d1e07a9d9dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-hisi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-hisi.c
> @@ -468,10 +468,6 @@ static int ufs_hisi_init_common(struct ufs_hba *hba)
> ufshcd_set_variant(hba, host);
>
> host->rst = devm_reset_control_get(dev, "rst");
> - if (IS_ERR(host->rst)) {
> - dev_err(dev, "%s: failed to get reset control\n", __func__);
> - return PTR_ERR(host->rst);
> - }
>
> ufs_hisi_set_pm_lvl(hba);
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>

This commit is incorrect, it does not properly clean up on the error
path, so I'll keep the revert and fix it up properly.

thanks,

greg k-h