Re: [PATCH 104/190] Revert "char: hpet: fix a missing check of ioremap"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:39PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 13bd14a41ce3105d5b1f3cd8b4d1e249d17b6d9b.
> 
> 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hpet.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
> index ed3b7dab678d..6f13def6c172 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
> @@ -969,8 +969,6 @@ static acpi_status hpet_resources(struct acpi_resource *res, void *data)
>  	if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) {
>  		hdp->hd_phys_address = addr.address.minimum;
>  		hdp->hd_address = ioremap(addr.address.minimum, addr.address.address_length);
> -		if (!hdp->hd_address)
> -			return AE_ERROR;
>  
>  		if (hpet_is_known(hdp)) {
>  			iounmap(hdp->hd_address);
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

While this is technically correct, it is only fixing ONE of these errors
in this function, so the patch is not fully correct.  I'll leave this
revert and provide a fix for this later that resolves this same
"problem" everywhere in this function.

thanks,

greg k-h