Re: [PATCH 073/190] Revert "media: rcar_drif: fix a memory disclosure"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:03:36AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:29:36 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
> > On 22/04/2021 08:57, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Hi Laurent,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:22 PM Laurent Pinchart
> > > <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:58:22PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:  
> > >>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:06 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:  
> > >>>> This reverts commit d39083234c60519724c6ed59509a2129fd2aed41.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 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: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> > >>>
> > >>> Upon a second look, I still see nothing wrong with the original commit.
> > >>> However, as I'm no v4l expert, I'd like to defer to the experts for final
> > >>> judgement.  
> > >>
> > >> It seems fine to me, but it also seems unneeded, as the V4L2 core clears
> > >> the whole f->fmt union before calling this operation. The revert will
> > >> this improve performance very slightly.  
> > > 
> > > Hmm, that means very recent commit f12b81e47f48940a ("media: core
> > > headers: fix kernel-doc warnings") is not fully correct, as it added
> > > kerneldoc stating this is the responsibility of the driver:
> > > 
> > > + * @reserved:          drivers and applications must zero this array  
> > 
> > Actually, it is the V4L2 core used by the driver that zeroes this. So
> > drivers don't need to do this, it's done for them. It used to be the
> > responsibility of the driver itself, but this was all moved to the core
> > framework a long time ago since, duh!, drivers always forgot this :-)
> > 
> > > 
> > > Anyway, it doesn't look like this umn.edu patch introduced a bug.  
> > 
> > I haven't seen any bugs introduced by the media patches from umn.edu.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I also double-checked all media revert patches from:
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git umn.edu-reverts
> 
> currently on this patch:
> 	6f4747a872ad Revert "ethtool: fix a potential missing-check bug"
> 
> That's a summary of what I found:
> 
> All of those should be dropped from your tree:
> 
> 	84fdb5856edd	Revert "media: si2165: fix a missing check of return value"
> 	867043f2206e	Revert "media: video-mux: fix null pointer dereferences"
> 	78ae4b621297	Revert "media: cx231xx: replace BUG_ON with recovery code"
> 	5be328a55817	Revert "media: saa7146: Avoid using BUG_ON as an assertion"
> 	81ce83158d22	Revert "media: davinci/vpfe_capture.c: Avoid BUG_ON for register failure"
> 	3319b39504b8	Revert "media: media/saa7146: fix incorrect assertion in saa7146_buffer_finish"
> 	b393f7cb29a2	Revert "media: rcar-vin: Fix a reference count leak."
> 	197bc5d03682	Revert "media: rcar-vin: Fix a reference count leak."
> 	2fd9cf68bbb6	Revert "media: rockchip/rga: Fix a reference count leak."
> 	d1e4614eca24	Revert "media: platform: fcp: Fix a reference count leak."
> 	416e8a6ae07f	Revert "media: camss: Fix a reference count leak."
> 	06b793ae497b	Revert "media: s5p-mfc: Fix a reference count leak"
> 	8f9fc14a7cc9	Revert "media: stm32-dcmi: Fix a reference count leak"
> 	556e1f86ba24	Revert "media: ti-vpe: Fix a missing check and reference count leak"
> 	5f5b1722ad0d	Revert "media: exynos4-is: Fix a reference count leak"
> 	f4c758c6c1cb	Revert "media: exynos4-is: Fix a reference count leak due to pm_runtime_get_sync"
> 	beb717878c73	Revert "media: exynos4-is: Fix several reference count leaks due to pm_runtime_get_sync
> 	7066ec748bfd	Revert "media: sti: Fix reference count leaks"
> 	cdd117093b19	Revert "media: st-delta: Fix reference count leak in delta_run_work"
> 
> As, after my re-check, they all seem to be addressing real issues. So,
> NACK on those.
> 
> This patch (073/190):
> 
> 	899ab4671bc0	Revert "media: rcar_drif: fix a memory disclosure"
> 
> While it doesn't hurt, it is useless, as the media core already
> prevents memory disclosure. So, it should be reverted.
> 
> So, for patch 073/190:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wonderful, thank you so much for doing this review and letting me know.
I'll drop the ones you mention here.

greg k-h