Re: [PATCH 112/190] Revert "libnvdimm/namespace: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:57:00PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit 55c1fc0af29a6c1b92f217b7eb7581a882e0c07c.
> >
> > 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: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Upon re-review this change still looks correct, no need for a revert.

Revert is dropped, thanks for the review.

greg k-h