Re: [PATCH 145/190] Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:20PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 248b57015f35c94d4eae2fdd8c6febf5cd703900.
> 
> 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: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c
> index fc433e63b1dc..5036d7d5f3d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c
> @@ -305,9 +305,7 @@ static int lp5523_init_program_engine(struct lp55xx_chip *chip)
>  
>  	/* Let the programs run for couple of ms and check the engine status */
>  	usleep_range(3000, 6000);
> -	ret = lp55xx_read(chip, LP5523_REG_STATUS, &status);
> -	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +	lp55xx_read(chip, LP5523_REG_STATUS, &status);
>  	status &= LP5523_ENG_STATUS_MASK;
>  
>  	if (status != LP5523_ENG_STATUS_MASK) {
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

The original commit here did not unwind things properly, so I'll keep
the revert and create a correct fix for this later.

thanks,

greg k-h