Re: [PATCH 164/190] Revert "iio: ad9523: fix a missing check of return value"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Apr 26 2021 - 13:02:03 EST


On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:35:05AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:39 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This reverts commit ae0b3773721f08526c850e2d8dec85bdb870cd12.
> >
> > 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 fix was correct. As with others I don't mind how we handle
> this. Can either drop the revert, or bring it back later.

I'll drop the revert now, thanks for the review!

greg k-h