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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-26T17:05:15Z

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 06:57:19AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the review from both of you, now dropped.

greg k-h