Re: [PATCH 094/190] Revert "iio: adc: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:59:29 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This reverts commit 13814627c9658cf8382dd052bc251ee415670a55.
> 
> 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: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Checked.  Original patch was valid.  Don't mind how we handle it though.
Can bring back later if it's dropped for now.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c
> index 30e29f44ebd2..7f327ae95739 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c
> @@ -456,8 +456,6 @@ static int mxs_lradc_adc_trigger_init(struct iio_dev *iio)
>  
>  	trig = devm_iio_trigger_alloc(&iio->dev, "%s-dev%i", iio->name,
>  				      iio->id);
> -	if (!trig)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	trig->dev.parent = adc->dev;
>  	iio_trigger_set_drvdata(trig, iio);