linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 047/190] Revert "rxrpc: Fix a memory leak in rxkad_verify

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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:30:23 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>,
        Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 047/190] Revert "rxrpc: Fix a memory leak in rxkad_verify_response()"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> This reverts commit f45d01f4f30b53c3a0a1c6c1c154acb7ff74ab9f.
> 
> 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: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

This is actually a good patch, so please don't revert it.

David