[PATCH 090/190] Revert "net/smc: fix a NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:07:02Z

This reverts commit e183d4e414b64711baf7a04e214b61969ca08dfa.

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: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/smc/smc_ism.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_ism.c b/net/smc/smc_ism.c
index 9c6e95882553..6558cf7643a7 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_ism.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_ism.c
@@ -417,11 +417,6 @@ struct smcd_dev *smcd_alloc_dev(struct device *parent, const char *name,
init_waitqueue_head(&smcd->lgrs_deleted);
smcd->event_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("ism_evt_wq-%s)",
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, name);
- if (!smcd->event_wq) {
- kfree(smcd->conn);
- kfree(smcd);
- return NULL;
- }
return smcd;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smcd_alloc_dev);
--
2.31.1