Re: [PATCH 3/7] Revert "orinoco: avoid assertion in case of NULL pointer"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 03:08:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit c705f9fc6a1736dcf6ec01f8206707c108dca824.
> 
> 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 submitted to 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) but later
> withdrawn.
> 
> 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
> index dd31929261ab..60e626eb913d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
> @@ -1392,8 +1392,7 @@ static int ezusb_init(struct hermes *hw)
>  	struct ezusb_priv *upriv = hw->priv;
>  	int retval;
>  
> -	if (!upriv)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +	BUG_ON(!upriv);
>  
>  	upriv->reply_count = 0;
>  	/* Write the MAGIC number on the simulated registers to keep
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

The original commit here looks correct, I'll drop this revert.

thanks,

greg k-h