Re: [PATCH 123/190] Revert "netfilter: ip6t_srh: fix NULL pointer dereferences"

Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-04-22T21:26:22Z

Hi Greg,

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:58PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 6d65561f3d5ec933151939c543d006b79044e7a6.
>
> 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 patch looks correct, no need to revert.

If you still prefer to revert it, no problem, I'll recover this fix
via the netfilter tree later on.

Thanks.