Re: [PATCH 054/190] Revert "clk: samsung: Remove redundant check in samsung_cmu_register_one"

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 21/04/2021 14:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 8d7a577d04e8ce24b1b81ee44ec8cd1dda2a9cd9.
> 
> 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: https
> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/samsung/clk.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk.c b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk.c
> index 1949ae7851b2..dad31308c071 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk.c
> @@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ struct samsung_clk_provider * __init samsung_cmu_register_one(
>  	}
>  
>  	ctx = samsung_clk_init(np, reg_base, cmu->nr_clk_ids);
> +	if (!ctx) {
> +		panic("%s: unable to allocate ctx\n", __func__);
> +		return ctx;
> +	}

Hi Greg,

The commit was fine here, so please keep it. NAK for the revert.

Best regards,
Krzysztof