Re: [PATCH 115/190] Revert "thunderbolt: Fix a missing check of kmemdup"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-26T16:58:19Z

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 02:30:12PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit e4dfdd5804cce1255f99c5dd033526a18135a616.
> >
> > 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.
>
> This one too is valid.

Now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h