Re: [PATCH 182/190] Revert "ethtool: fix a missing-check bug"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 06:03:53AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > This reverts commit 2bb3207dbbd4d30e96dd0e1c8e013104193bd59c.
> > 
> > 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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 3 ---
> >  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> The original patch looks valid and fixes a race.

Thanks for reviewing, now dropped.

greg k-h