Re: [PATCH 175/190] Revert "ipv6/route: Add a missing check on proc_dointvec"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit f0fb9b288d0a7e9cc324ae362e2dfd2cc2217ded.
> 
> 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: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> index 373d48073106..0e85741423d7 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> @@ -6169,16 +6169,12 @@ static int ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
>  {
>  	struct net *net;
>  	int delay;
> -	int ret;
>  	if (!write)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	net = (struct net *)ctl->extra1;
>  	delay = net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay;
> -	ret = proc_dointvec(ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> -	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> -
> +	proc_dointvec(ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
>  	fib6_run_gc(delay <= 0 ? 0 : (unsigned long)delay, net, delay > 0);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

Original looks correct, dropping this revert.

greg k-h