Re: [PATCH 122/190] Revert "HID: logitech: check the return value of create_singlethread_workqueue"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27T14:45:24Z

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 05:20:45PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > This reverts commit 6c44b15e1c9076d925d5236ddadf1318b0a25ce2.
> >
> > 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: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> This particular one doesn't have to be reverted, I have reviewed it again
> and it does fix an actual bug.

Thanks, I will drop the revert from my tree.

greg k-h