Re: [PATCH 106/190] Revert "tty: ipwireless: fix missing checks for ioremap"

Jiri Slaby
2021-04-22T04:57:25Z

On 21. 04. 21, 17:59, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This reverts commit 1bbb1c318cd8a3a39e8c3e2e83d5e90542d6c3e3.
>>
>> 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.
>
> I've reviewed the patch at the time and now again with fresh eyes, but
> it's IMO a valid fix that would have to be done the same way after
> revert.

ACK -- the same opinion here.

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