Re: [PATCH 155/190] Revert "brcmfmac: add a check for the status of usb_register"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:30PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 42daad3343be4a4e1ee03e30a5f5cc731dadfef5.
> 
> 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: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
> index 586f4dfc638b..d2a803fc8ac6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
> @@ -1586,10 +1586,6 @@ void brcmf_usb_exit(void)
>  
>  void brcmf_usb_register(void)
>  {
> -	int ret;
> -
>  	brcmf_dbg(USB, "Enter\n");
> -	ret = usb_register(&brcmf_usbdrvr);
> -	if (ret)
> -		brcmf_err("usb_register failed %d\n", ret);
> +	usb_register(&brcmf_usbdrvr);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

This change was not ok, and did nothing to actually fix the root problem
here.  I'll be keeping this revert and will fix it up "properly".

thanks,

greg k-h