Re: [PATCH 174/190] Revert "net: chelsio: Add a missing check on cudg_get_buffer"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 27 2021 - 13:01:14 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:49PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit ca19fcb6285bfce1601c073bf4b9d2942e2df8d9.
>
> 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c
> index 23a2ebdfd503..c7378da78a83 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c
> @@ -1638,10 +1638,6 @@ int cudbg_collect_hw_sched(struct cudbg_init *pdbg_init,
>
> rc = cudbg_get_buff(pdbg_init, dbg_buff, sizeof(struct cudbg_hw_sched),
> &temp_buff);
> -
> - if (rc)
> - return rc;
> -
> hw_sched_buff = (struct cudbg_hw_sched *)temp_buff.data;
> hw_sched_buff->map = t4_read_reg(padap, TP_TX_MOD_QUEUE_REQ_MAP_A);
> hw_sched_buff->mode = TIMERMODE_G(t4_read_reg(padap, TP_MOD_CONFIG_A));
> --
> 2.31.1
>

Original looks correct, dropping this revert.

greg k-h