Re: [PATCH 172/190] Revert "net: (cpts) fix a missing check of clk_prepare"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 2d822f2dbab7f4c820f72eb8570aacf3f35855bd.
> 
> 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: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c
> index 43222a34cba0..60fde1bb9665 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c
> @@ -778,9 +778,7 @@ struct cpts *cpts_create(struct device *dev, void __iomem *regs,
>  		return ERR_CAST(cpts->refclk);
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = clk_prepare(cpts->refclk);
> -	if (ret)
> -		return ERR_PTR(ret);
> +	clk_prepare(cpts->refclk);
>  
>  	cpts->cc.read = cpts_systim_read;
>  	cpts->cc.mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32);
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

Original looks correct, revert now dropped.

greg k-h