Re: [PATCH] Revert "crypto: cavium/nitrox - add an error message to explain the failure of pci_request_mem_regions"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 08:18:34AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:49:31AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 9fcddaf2e28d779cb946d23838ba6d50f299aa80 as it was
> > submitted under a fake name and we can not knowingly accept anonymous
> > contributions to the repository.
> > 
> > This commit was part of a submission "test" to the Linux kernel
> > community by some "researchers" at umn.edu.  As outlined at:
> > 	https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ekjlu/papers/full-disclosure.pdf
> > it was done so as an attempt to submit a known-buggy patch to see if it
> > could get by our review.  However, the submission turned out to actually
> > be correct, and not have a bug in it as the author did not understand
> > how the PCI driver model works at all, and so the submission was
> > accepted.
> > 
> > As this change is of useless consequence, there is no loss of
> > functionality in reverting it.
> > 
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Herbert, I will be taking this as part of my larger "revert buggy patch
> > submissions from umn.edu" tree, so no need for you to take this in your
> > tree at this point in time, I just wanted to give you a heads up as to
> > what is happening here.
> 
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Wonderful, thanks for the review.

greg k-h