Re: [PATCH 170/190] Revert "net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Propagate error value from mdio_write"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27T16:50:33Z

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:20:24PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 4/21/2021 6:00 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit e49505f7255be8ced695919c08a29bf2c3d79616.
> >
> > 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> While this commit does not fix a known problem, the driver should have
> arguably propagated the return values and it did not, so I would be
> inclined to keep it.

Looks good, I'll drop my revert, thanks for the review.

greg k-h