Re: [PATCH 136/190] Revert "net: thunder: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-26T16:51:47Z

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 0b31d98d90f09868dce71319615e19cd1f146fb6.
> >
> > 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> +Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
>
> The original patch looks correct to me.

Now dropped, thanks for the review.

greg k-h