Re: [PATCH 189/190] Revert "scsi: 3w-9xxx: fix a missing-check bug"

[James Morris]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> This reverts commit c9318a3e0218bc9dacc25be46b9eec363259536f.
> 
> 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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Adam Radford <aradford@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The original patch here looks valid and necessary.

Please un-revert.


Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
> index b96e82de4237..4c5d4ea8a592 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
> @@ -886,11 +886,6 @@ static int twa_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	unsigned int minor_number;
>  	int retval = TW_IOCTL_ERROR_OS_ENODEV;
>  
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> -		retval = -EACCES;
> -		goto out;
> -	}
> -
>  	minor_number = iminor(inode);
>  	if (minor_number >= twa_device_extension_count)
>  		goto out;
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>