Re: [PATCH 119/190] Revert "tty: mxs-auart: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 07:03:55AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 21. 04. 21, 14:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 6734330654dac550f12e932996b868c6d0dcb421.
> > 
> > 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: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c | 4 ----
> >   1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> > index f414d6acad69..edad6ebbdfd5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> > @@ -1644,10 +1644,6 @@ static int mxs_auart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >   	s->port.mapbase = r->start;
> >   	s->port.membase = ioremap(r->start, resource_size(r));
> > -	if (!s->port.membase) {
> > -		ret = -ENOMEM;
> > -		goto out_disable_clks;
> > -	}
> 
> I don't think this needs to be reverted -- the original fix is correct.
> 

Now dropped, thanks for the review!

greg k-h