[PATCH 159/190] Revert "ALSA: gus: add a check of the status of snd_ctl_add"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:11:21Z

This reverts commit 0f25e000cb4398081748e54f62a902098aa79ec1.

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: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
sound/isa/gus/gus_main.c | 13 ++-----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/isa/gus/gus_main.c b/sound/isa/gus/gus_main.c
index afc088f0377c..b7518122a10d 100644
--- a/sound/isa/gus/gus_main.c
+++ b/sound/isa/gus/gus_main.c
@@ -77,17 +77,8 @@ static const struct snd_kcontrol_new snd_gus_joystick_control = {

static void snd_gus_init_control(struct snd_gus_card *gus)
{
- int ret;
-
- if (!gus->ace_flag) {
- ret =
- snd_ctl_add(gus->card,
- snd_ctl_new1(&snd_gus_joystick_control,
- gus));
- if (ret)
- snd_printk(KERN_ERR "gus: snd_ctl_add failed: %d\n",
- ret);
- }
+ if (!gus->ace_flag)
+ snd_ctl_add(gus->card, snd_ctl_new1(&snd_gus_joystick_control, gus));
}

/*
--
2.31.1