linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 182/190] Revert "ethtool: fix a missing-check bug"

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Message-ID: <bbf9a32a-fcb6-2aa9-2f39-ba384be1f5a0@namei.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:03:53 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 182/190] Revert "ethtool: fix a missing-check bug"

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> This reverts commit 2bb3207dbbd4d30e96dd0e1c8e013104193bd59c.
> 
> 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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

The original patch looks valid and fixes a race.


Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@...ux.microsoft.com>


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>