linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 107/190] Revert "RDMA/i40iw: Handle workqueue allocation failure"

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Message-ID: <20210421140700.GH1370958@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:07:00 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 107/190] Revert "RDMA/i40iw: Handle workqueue allocation
 failure"

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit e2a438bd7116889af36304903b92e56d0f347228.
> 
> 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@....edu>
> Cc: Shiraz, Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h      |  2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.c   | 18 +++---------------
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c |  5 +----
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

I don't see a reason to revert this one, the new code structure
appears OK

Jason