Re: [PATCH 142/190] Revert "rtc: hym8563: fix a missing check of block data read"

[Willy Tarreau]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:17PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 9a20b5e35a536d6bb4b2d4a3b14a0457e205356c.
> 
> 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: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c
> index 0751cae27285..a9d033eff61e 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-hym8563.c
> @@ -94,8 +94,6 @@ static int hym8563_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	ret = i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(client, HYM8563_SEC, 7, buf);
> -	if (ret < 0)
> -		return ret;
>  
>  	if (buf[0] & HYM8563_SEC_VL) {
>  		dev_warn(&client->dev,

Seems like this one was a valid fix, and that the description matched
what was done; plenty of other drivers also proceed similarly. I suspect
it should be kept.

Willy