Re: [PATCH 094/190] Revert "iio: adc: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-26T17:02:27Z

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:32:09AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:59:29 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > This reverts commit 13814627c9658cf8382dd052bc251ee415670a55.
> >
> > 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: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Checked. Original patch was valid. Don't mind how we handle it though.
> Can bring back later if it's dropped for now.

Now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h