Re: [PATCH 107/190] Revert "RDMA/i40iw: Handle workqueue allocation failure"

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Wed Apr 21 2021 - 10:07:11 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit e2a438bd7116889af36304903b92e56d0f347228.
>
> 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@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shiraz, Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h | 2 +-
> drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.c | 18 +++---------------
> drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c | 5 +----
> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

I don't see a reason to revert this one, the new code structure
appears OK

Jason