Re: [PATCH 040/190] Revert "ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe()"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:58:35PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 4d8be4bc94f74bb7d096e1c2e44457b530d5a170.
> 
> 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: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: 4.10+ <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.10+
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> index 69057fcd2c04..42650b34e45e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> @@ -830,7 +830,6 @@ int acpi_cppc_processor_probe(struct acpi_processor *pr)
>  			"acpi_cppc");
>  	if (ret) {
>  		per_cpu(cpc_desc_ptr, pr->id) = NULL;
> -		kobject_put(&cpc_ptr->kobj);
>  		goto out_free;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>

The original change here looks correct, so I will drop this revert from
my tree.

greg k-h