[PATCH 100/190] Revert "staging: greybus: audio_manager: fix a missing check of ida_simple_get"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:07:56Z

This reverts commit b5af36e3e5aa074605a4d90a89dd8f714b30909b.

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: Vaibhav Agarwal <vaibhav.sr@gmail.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/audio_manager.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_manager.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_manager.c
index 9a3f7c034ab4..7c7ca671876d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_manager.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_manager.c
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ int gb_audio_manager_add(struct gb_audio_manager_module_descriptor *desc)
int err;

id = ida_simple_get(&module_id, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (id < 0)
- return id;
-
err = gb_audio_manager_module_create(&module, manager_kset,
id, desc);
if (err) {
--
2.31.1